Ofo and another Beijing start-up, Mobike, realized that by equipping bikes with GPS and digital locks, commuters could use their phones to rent bikes, freeing them from fixed docks.
这里的matter为什么不用复数?感觉很奇怪？前面的criteria都是复数啊！The internet lets people compare cities and neighbourhoods by whatever criteria matter to them, from house prices to commuting times.
...d floor space. For employees the promise is of time saved: spared of their commute, they can get their work done and focus on their families and hobbies. That, at least, is the idea. But, as many a remote employee knows, the boundary between workand home life can blur.But, as many a remote employ...
背景:When the traffic is really heavy,his commute is stressful.
It would be great if he could workfrom home one or two hours a week.
这句话中it是做形式主语吗?如果是的话，真正主语是if引导的主语从句，可if引导名词性从句时意思是“是否”，可这里if...
有这样一个句子：Rather than going into an office, a lot of people are connected to the Internet and now workfrom home. 现在有许多人都不去办公室，而是连接到互联网，在家里工作。请问这里为什么用 workfrom home，而不用 work at home 呢？
...种表述，不知道我感觉对着没？In the example
you suggested, "From now "also works as now refers to the current
moment . 我认为refers to the current moment作为修饰应该是定语从句或者加个逗号改成并列句，这样写在后面是不是因为变成了两个谓语所以...
Kids from different economic backgrounds behave ___56._____(different) in classrooms. For example, working-class kids are ___57._____likely to ask for help from teachers than their middle-class counterparts. And when/if they do ask for help, they’re less aggressive about it.That’s ac...
...ther than fixing, pointing to
health rather than dysfunction, turning away from limiting labels and diagnosis
to wholeness and well-being.working with这个短语可以作不及物吗？还是说，working with的宾语是health和dysfunction（rather than作连词）
Carpooling involves two to five commuters sharing a vehicle. 拼车出行意味着两到五个上班族在通勤路上共享一辆汽车。这个句子结构像主谓宾，sharing a vehicle现在分词作宾补。 又像two to five commuters sharing a vhicle动名词复合结构作宾语。是哪个...
...ed into four groups and exposed to
various noise levels in the background, fromtotal silence to 50 decibels (分贝), 70 decibels,
and 85 decibels. The differences between most of the groups were statistically
insignificant; however, the participants in the 70 decibels group—those exposed
to a le...
以下句子中的toandfrom属于两个介词用and并列，后面只带了一个宾语：
Local buses run regularly toandfrom the nearest town. 当地有往返最近城镇的班车。
I rely on the train to take me toandfromwork each day. 我每天靠火车上下班。
E...
There are many who stay away from the self-regimentation of a weekly timetable, and dislike being tied down to a definite program of work. Many able students claim that they work in cycles. When they become interested in a topic they work on it intensively for three or four days at a time. On ...
...rk. The students are thrown in with similarly able minds, learning as much from each other as from their teachers; the good senior academics know better than to be too hierarchical or to cut themselves off from intellectual criticism and debate.