▲need 用作行为动词表“需要”时,need doing = need to be done,即使用主动形式表被动含义。如: 1. The room needs cleaning.=The room needs to be cleaned. 这房间需要打扫了。 2. Your hair needs cutting.=Your hair needs to be cut. 你的头发该理了。 这样用的 need 主语也可是“人&rdquo...
回答于 2014-11-17 21:11
以下是三部权威词典中收录的 heart attack 词条,均注明了其为可数名词。因此,要说 He died of a heart attack during a routine operation.heart attack1.《朗文当代》n [C] a sudden serious medical condition in which someone's heart stops workingnormally, causing them great pain2.《剑桥高级学习词典》noun...
回答于 2014-11-14 17:41
恐怕这样的概念要靠意译吧。请考虑这个问题:I was only a small child then. 那时,我还只是个小孩子。可不可以意译为:那时的我还只是个小孩子。类似地:I knew nothing about Physics yesterday.是不是也可以翻译为:昨天的我对物理还一窍不通。我想,what I was like yesterday 或许比较接近“昨天的我”?总的说来需要看...
回答于 2014-11-13 12:08
一般来说,在括号外需要首字母大写的,在括号内也需要首字母大写,如部分专有名词的首字母,一个句子的首字母。单词、短语在括号内首字母则不需要大写。例如:括号内容首字母小写的情况:Curly brackets (braces) are the outermost pair.In some other countries (such as England and Wales), square brackets are used t...
回答于 2014-11-13 11:44
副词 soon 也可以用作表语。例如: It may be soon but there may be some delay. How soon is soon? It's still too soon to say whether the operation was a success.
回答于 2014-11-13 10:21
1. make 与 job 搭配,是符合英语的表达习惯的。《牛津英语搭配词典》当中包含了这样的搭配用法:VERB + JOB do, make: She made a very good job of covering up the damage.2. job 作“工作任务”解时,可与动词 do、make 搭配。与 make 构成的常见的搭配形式为:make a neat job of 做得干净利落make a good job of...
回答于 2014-11-10 09:19
▲应当选用复数 have。an unknown number of (数目不详的)与 a certain number of (若干)在用法上相似,修饰可数名词复数,谓语动词用复数。 ▲相关例句: 1. It isalso clear that an unknown number of officers have individually, over the years, passed material to loyalist terrorists. 2. Theuprisin...
回答于 2014-11-07 17:19
deny 作“否认;否定”解时,是及物动词,其后需接名词、代词、动名词或名词性从句作宾语。因此,该句中的 it 不可省略。
回答于 2014-11-07 10:56
这种表达不常见,但在一些特殊语境下,比如引述对方的观点看法时,还是偶有使用的,也属于正确的表达。可以翻译成:照你那么说;照你那么看。比如: So according to you, Gladys is not to be believed. And according to you there won't be a future. According to you I've got no friends.
回答于 2014-11-06 15:06
▲首先可以肯定的是,best-seller 作“畅销书;畅销物”解时,是可数名词。▲其次,你给出的句子是个省略句。补全之后可以是:Whether it is a bestseller or not, the book sounds as dull as ditchwater to me. 在 whether 引导的让步状语从句中,it is 可以省略。此外,在引导让步状语从句时,从句引导词 whether 也偶有省略...
回答于 2014-11-06 14:45