...ility.
The international
scholars’ warning letter doesn’t say exactly what collapse will look like or
when it might happen. Collapseology, the study of collapse, is more concerned
with identifying trends and with them the dangers of everyday civilization.
Among the signatories (签署者)
of th...
看到两个例句：The real trick to managing your money is not what you do — it’s how you do it. The main trick to use in any of these circumstances is the right set of keywords. 为什么一个是不定式一个是to做介词的动名词，这两个可以换吗？
A man escaped from the prison last night. It was a long time ____ the guards discovered what had happened.
A. before B. until C. since D. likely
答案为before，请问可否选择until？
...y station before noon. M: You’re lucky. I can drop you off on my way. 2. What will the man do for the woman? A. Repair her car. B. Give her a ride. C. Pick up her aunt.
...性为形容词并解释为Bloody is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they are angry.例句：（摘自牛津词典） She did bloody well to win that race. 她非常出色地赢得了那场赛跑。 ...
...合地使用这些知识。例如：1. Would you mind _____ your
radio a little, please ?A. turn off B. turning of C. to turn off D. turning down【分析】turn off 的意思是“关掉（电灯、收音机、煤气、自来水等）”，turn down 的意思是“拒绝”、“不采...
例如：He wrote a letter apologizing to his daughter for what he had done.这里虽然根据经验，能填出来apologizing，因为letter message post等后面经常用现在分词表伴随，但总是会想到，为什么不能填 to apologize表示目的呢?再比如：She read the letter thro...
...ink of nothing to say, but Mrs. Strickland came to my rescue. She asked me what I had been doing with myself during the summer, and with this help I managed to make some conversation till tea was brought in. The Colonel asked for a whisky-and-soda."You'd better have one too, Amy," he said."No; I pre...
...atches. 在这体育场里举办过很多精彩的足球赛。Dusk found a little boy crying in the
street. 黄昏时一个小男孩在大街上哭。Rome witnessed many great historic events. 在罗马城发生了许多伟大历史事件。The following year saw the death of his
mother. 第二年...
This jumping to our children's defence is part of what fuels the "walking on eggshells" feeling that surrounds our dealing with other people's children.
...e to me,promising to make me feel at home as you can,and that was actually what you had done: you'd taught me the customs of UK so I wouldn't be embarrassed，you'd ……(后面是一串的过去完成时）请问这里的时态用的对吗？另外，UK前有加定冠词the...
I
left Alexandria next day, and I forgot about Abraham till a little while ago,
when I was dining with another old friend in the profession, Alec Carmichael,
who was in England on short leave. I ran across him in the street and
congratulated him on the knighthood with which his eminent services duri...
看到这样一个句子：If it not for your help, I really don’t what I’d have done. 要不是你的帮助，我真不知会弄成什么样子。这里难道不是应该用 If it hadn’t been for your help 吗？为什么用 if it not for your help 呢？难道是 If it hadn’t been for…...
...Not a brilliant
idea, but funny, and unlikely to be anyone else’s choice.What did
the horse think, as sped through the night? Did he get tired? Have doubts? Did
he want to quit? I sympathized immediately. I got tired. I had
doubts. I wanted to quit. But, like Revere’s
horse, I kept going. I work...