英语的时态问题，被动与主动 Bystanders, _______, _________ as they walked past lines of ambulances. a、bloody and covered with dust, looking dazed B. bloodied and covered with dust, looked dazed bloody是形容词，在这里不是很好吗？为什么选B，被动语态呢？

in the dead of the winter What does this sentence mean "The lady who has put him up for a night in the dead of the winter later turned out to be a distant relation of his."?

So many "at least", which confused me. I have read this from a Patent, and was confused. "(a1) at least two surfactants, at least one of the surfactants being a sulphurized or non-sulphurized phenol or a derivative thereof and the other, or at least one other, of the suifactants being a suifactant other than a phenol suifactant;" I considered that there are "at least" two suifactants, "at least" one phenol(why it said that "sulphurized" or "non-sulphurized", read like nonsense) and "at least" not a phenol surfactant.

The use of "The" I red a sentence "The people who speak English today make up the largest speech community in the world with the only exception of speakers of Mandarin Chinese." which puzzled me by the first word "The" of this sentence. I thought there shouldn't be this word.

On the Importance of a Name Everyone has it's name. The name of a Chinese is espscially variety. Many are very interesting. The name of a person reflects his or her parents' character. Some people consider that a name is very important for a man. So they do hard to find a good name for their children. Some others don't think name is so important. I have met many people with a "good" name. Take "long" (means dragon in Chinese) for example, many people with this character in their name because their parents want to their children to be somebody. But most of them are nobody. And an expert of demolition just named "Baixing" (means nobody), but he is famous in his field. Name is important, just because you can feel your parents' loves and willings through your name. But when you consider it too exceed, it turns to a reverse aspect.

How to analies this long sentence ? “Life in its greatly varied forms is as much a part of the sructure of the Earth as any inanimate portion is .” I am confused by “as much as" ? I am sorry that I don't know how to say , I have no idea about this strange sentence .

A small story I have seen . Writen by a famous writer in China . His grandpa had a beautiful long mustache . When he was young , He had asked his grandpa that whether he put his mustache in or outside the quilt . His grandpa can't answer , because he never noticed that , so the grandpa promised he would see that when that night he sleep . But he can't felled asleep that night that he felt uncomfortable nether he put his mustache in nor outside the quilt .