Secret Lady Daily English 20060811
Q：This is she / her （这就是她）、 It is she / her （那就是她）这两句，应用 her 还是 she ？
A：语法上，应说 This / It is she 。
读者也许会问： This 是句子主词（ subject ），「她」是受词（ object ），为什么不用受词 her ？ I saw her （我看见她）、 I followed her （我跟她）等句子，总不能改作 I saw she 、 I followed she 吧？
其实 be （包括 is 、 were 等变体）和 see 、 follow [...]
Secret Lady Daily English 20060810
Ｑ: 某网站”A Word a Day”（一日一字）专栏授 lay low 一词，例句是 He decided to lay low for awhile until his friend forgot that he had damaged his car （他决定沉寂一会儿，待朋友把他毁坏汽车的事遗忘）。这一句 lay low 二字用得正确吗？
Ａ:这句英文有两个错误，一是 for awhile ，一是 lay low 。
Awhile 是副词（ adverb ），可修饰动词，意思是「片刻」或 for a short time ；
例句： Let’s sleep awhile （我们小睡一下吧）
a while 则是名词，可用在介系词（ preposition ）之后，意思是「一段时间」或 for a period of [...]
Secret Lady Daily English 20060807
At the end of the Mexican War in 1848, General William Tecumseh Sherman was sent to survey the lands of New Mexico and Arizona, which the Americans had won from the Mexicans.
On his return President Taylor asked Sherman what he thought of the lands. Had they been worth fighting for? Recalling the arid lands from [...]
Secret Lady Daily English 20060804
Q：读英文报纸，见到 Indonesia has been hit by a second tsunami in as many years 一语， in as many 这说法是怎样用的？
A:查《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》，也有「 He made ten mistakes in as many lines 他在十行中就出了十个错」例句。
英文一个常用句式，是句子先说一个数字，然后用 as many 说数目上和这数字相同的事物，所以介系词（ preposition ）不一定用 in ，例如：
（1 ） Seven topics were discussed at as many （= seven ） meetings （七个会议讨论了七个题目）。
（2 ） They beat us in three football games, [...]
Secret Lady Daily English 20060803
Q：一家社区学院来信欢迎我读副学士课程，说二○○四至○五学年有超过二百八十个文学副学士毕业生升上大学，其中超过一百人入了香港大学文学院、育学院、社会科学院： More than 280 Associate of Arts students continued their bachelor’s degree study. Among which, more than 100 students were admitted to the faculties of Arts, Education, and Social Sciences in HKU 。文中continued 一字用得对吗？
A：Continued their bachelor’s degree study 即「继续其学士学位课程」，但香港的所谓副学士课程根本不是学士课程一部分，毕业生可以说「升读」学士课程，却不可说「继续」。我希望这只是无心之失，而不是有意蒙混，把副学士、学士混为一谈，以高副学士身价。
此外， Among which 二字也很不妥当。 Which 是连接词兼代名词，可连接两个句子，却不可用来起句；可作事物的代名词，却不可作人的代名词。
The committee had ten members. There were disagreements among them （委员会有十名成员，大家意见并不一致）这两句，可改写作
The committee [...]
1000 English Mottos Part 1
001. An idle youth, a needy age.
少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。
002. Time flies.
时光易逝。
003. Time is money.
一寸光阴一寸金。
004. Time and tide wait for no man.
岁月无情；岁月易逝；岁月不待人。
005. Time tries all.
时间检验一切。
006. Time tries truth.
时间检验真理。
007. Time past cannot be called back again.
光阴一去不复返。
008. All time is no time when it is past.
光阴一去不复返。
009. No one can call back [...]
Introduction of This Website
Time flies. I have collected so much material about English learning. I even have enough time to read all of them. And it seems to be a really hard work to arrange them.
So, I decided to create this En website as my English edition of my blog, 傻子网. I will try to use this website [...]