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Here are 3 English questions. Thank you for your help! 1.they(some astronomers) were based at a girls' school, where - it is alleged - the combined forces of three schoolmistresses outperformed the professionals with the accuracy of their observations. ' 'it is alleged ' what is 'it'? and what does 'forces' here mean? 2.For centuries, transits of Venus have drawn explores and astronomers alike to the four corners of the globe. And you can put it all down to the extraordinary polymath Edmond Halley.' what does 'put it all down to' mean? what is 'it' here? 3.'something occurs in pairs roughly 8 hours apart every hundred or so years. ' what is ' in pairs roughly 8 hours apart every hundred or so years'? especially the part of 'in pairs'
July 25, 2017
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Here are three English questions. Many many thanks in advance. 1.'To reach an exceptionally high standard in any area very able children need the means to learn, which includes meterial to work with and focused challenging tuition and the enCouragement to follow their dream.' i dont know the meaning of 'focused challenging tuition'. 2.'In Boekaerts' review of emotion in the learning of very IQ and highly achieving children, she found emotional forces in harness.' what is 'emotional forces in harness' 3.what are 'child-initiated learning' and 'ability-peer tutoring'?
July 22, 2017
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Here are some English questions. Thank you for your help! 5."why protect chlorophyll at a time when the tree is breaking it down to salvage as much of it as possible?" what does "breaking it down to salvage" mean? 6."their story, though not as spectacular to the eye, will surely turn out to be as subtle and as complex" what is "as spectacular to the eye"?
July 15, 2017
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Here are some English questions. Thank you for your help! 3. "it has also been proposed that trees may peoduce vivid red colours to convince herbivorous insects that they are healthy and robust and would be easily able to mount ahemical defences against infestation." what does "convince" here mean and what is "mount" 4."perhaps the most plausible suggestion as to why leaves would go to the trouble of making anthocyanins when they are busy packing up for the winter is the theory known as the 'light screen' hypothesis." what does "packing up" mean?
July 15, 2017
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Some English questions. Thank you for your help! 1. "But it is hard to make sense of manufacture of anthocyanins-why should a tree bother making new chemicals in its leaves when it's already scrambling to withdraw and preserve the ones already there?" what is " it's already scrambling to withdraw "? 2. "however there are problems with each of these theories, including the fact that leaves are red for such a relatively short period that the expense of energy needed to manufacture the anthocyanins would outweigh any anti-fungal or anti-herbivore activity achieved." this sentence is too long to understand...
July 15, 2017
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some english questions. Thank you for your help. "It’s been a year since I’ve left the Midwest—what has always been my home. It’s been a year since I gathered my life and loaded it into a uhaul truck, hitched my little car to the trailer, and watched the city where I grew up fade in the rearview mirror. " what does "gathered my life and loaded it into a uhaul truck" mean? what does "hitched my little car to the trailer" mean? what does "grew up fade" mean? Many many thanks in advance.
July 13, 2017
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Two long sentences. please help me to understand them. thank you so much! 1.we now have hundreds of tree-ring records from throughout the northern hemisphere, and many from south of the equator, too, amplified with a growing body of temperature data from ice cores drilled in Antarctica, Greenland, the Peruvian Andes, and other countries. a)how to understand "too" and also "amplified with a growing body of temperature data from ice cores drilled in Antarctica, Greenland, the Peruvian Andes, and other countries."? b)what does "drilled" mean here? c)how to understand the whole sentence. 2.it was not a time of uniform warmth, for then, as always since the Great Ice Age, there were constant shifts in rainfall and temperature. a)how to understand "for then" here b)does "as" here mean "because
July 11, 2017
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Thank you for your time and corrections. Thank you so much! The form below exhibits how much visitors went to Ashdown Museum the year before and the year after its refurbishment. The pie charts show the feedbacks from visitors in these two years about their satisfaction. After refurbishment, there were 92000 visitors in one year, which was 18000 people more than before. People who visited the museum were divided into 5 groups: ‘Very satisfied’, ‘Satisfied’, ‘Dissatisfied’, ‘Very dissatisfied’ and ‘No response’. The proportion of each types changed after the refurbishment, except for ‘No response’. Both ‘Very satisfied and Satisfied’ increased from 15% and 30% to 35% and 40%, respectively. Meanwhile ‘Dissatisfied’ had a drastic decrease from 40% to 15%. Besides, ‘Very dissatisfied’ dropped from 10% to 5% as well. In general, more visitors were prone to give positive feedbacks about the museum than before. Although the percentage of ‘No response’ did not change, the amount of this kind of people increased from 3700 to 4600.
June 24, 2017
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“很充实的一天”用英语怎么说?How to say “很充实的一天” in English? Thank you for your help! “很充实的一天”用英语怎么说?How to say “很充实的一天” in English? Thank you for your help!
June 22, 2017
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