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A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where the plaice is pleased to be placed.

放盘子的好地方是盘子乐意被放的地方。此句体现了不定式to place a plaice做后置定语和where引导的定语从句的用法。

I should advise you to play it cool if you wish to make any progeress in the negotiation.

如果我们根据现在的情况来预言将来，那就用'going to'。

Its form is always the present participle followed by the infinitive marker to : They were fixing to leave without me.

它常用带动词不定式的符号 to 加现在分词的形式：他们正准备不等我就离开。

Shakespear says:To be or not to be,this is a ques...

TO BE 也不是翻译成"是"啊！

For the woes of our age, form global warming to the rapacity of huge corporations. Other see American ideals - a commitment to freedom, say, or to limited government - as being universally inspiring.

他们认为美国在自由以及限制政府权力等议题上的持之以恒的追求(a commitment to freedom， say， or to limited government )是值得全人类效法的。

The word "left" in "copyleft" is not a reference to the verb "to leave"— only to the direction which is the inverse of "right".

Copyleft里的单词left与参考动词"to leave "没有任何联系，只是说明与"right"相反的一种目的。

To its west is British Columbia while to its east is Saskatchewan.

但是这句话中的两个to 应该是关键词。

When the effect of inductance is such as to cause an induced voltage in the salne circuit in which the changing current is flowing,the term self-induction is applied to the phenomenon.

当电感效应在变化的电流流过的同一电路里足以引起感应电压时，我们就用"自感"这个词来描述这一现象。（such as引导的不定式短语to cause。……表示结果。）转贴于：口译笔译考试

Semantically, fixing to can refer only to events that immediately follow the speaker's point of reference.

从语义上来看， fixing to 仅用于紧跟在说话者观点后的事情。

The nurse is attending to a sick man.The nurse is attending to a sick man.

这个护士正在照顾一个病人。attend：出席，参加；attend to ：照料、看管、注意。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。