4. As families move away from their stable community,their friends of many years,their extended family relationships,the informal flow of information...
英国大文豪莎士比亚在他的名著《哈姆雷特》里写过这么一句名言：Brevity is the soul of wit.（言以简洁为贵。）写文章也好，说话也好，都要求生动活泼，简单明了，因此，简洁”乃是一篇好文章的基本要求之一。文章要做到简洁，省略法（Ellipsis）是必用的。英语句子中的某...
英语句子通常有两种语序，一种是自然语序（Natural Order），又称正装语序，另一种便是本章要介绍的倒装语序（Inverted Order）。从形式上分，倒装有两种：全部倒装（Full Inversion）和部分倒装（Partial Inversion）。谓语动词全部位于主语之前的称作全部倒装...
97. On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted--suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients f...
[参考译文] 在美国，这一返朴趋势是以经济衰落的反应为开始的--那是在80年 代末期裁员而引起大量的失业之后一一现在依然与提倡节俭的政纲相： 关；而在英国，最起码在我所熟识的中产阶级返朴归隐者中，追求简约； 生活的原因就多种多样了。88. For the women of my generation...
79. The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science based especially on a mathematical or laboratory training, and can be illustrated i...
71. But it is a little upsetting to read in the explanatory notes that a certain line describes a fight between a Turkish and a Bulgarian officer on a...
[参考译文] 但是，对一个小部分学生来说，职业教育也是条可取的路径。因为在 其他因素相同的情况下，技能的娴熟是得到工作与否的关键。62. Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry technique to...
51. Unlike most of the world"s volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth"s ...
26. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, "A technologist thinks about objects that can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are...