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India used to be a colony of Britain.

印度过去曾是英国的一个殖民地。

A: A linking verb is a word used to connect the subject of a sentence to further information about the state which the subject is in.

主要用于&副词/介词短语+be +主语&句型中，语序为倒装语序，即谓语动词单复数取决于后面的主语。

A free rider to the street and grad hold of his necktie, in place of thepigtail which used to be the first thing reached for in a brawl. But that

我在香港的时候曾看到过一个巴士售票员追揩油搭便车的家伙，一直追到街上，抓住那人的领带——有辫子可抓的时代已经结束了。

I used to be a heavy user of email to communicate with my adult stepchildren and extended family, who are scattered across six states.

我的成年继子女和三亲六戚们散落在全国六个州，过去我大量使用电子邮件和他们交流。

It used to be quite difficult and complicated to analyze the power flow of differential gear trains and closed differential gear trains and to compute their efficiency.

此前 ，差动轮系的功率流向分析和啮合效率计算让使用者感到是既难又繁的事。

Among those factors, Mr Maguire says, is the shift in what used to be freak weather events to regular occurrences affecting crops, the westernisation of Asian eating habits, and stronger biofuel demand that has more than doubled the price of palm oil, a key cooking ingredient,in the past 18 months.

马圭尔表示，这些结构性因素包括：影响农作物收成的恶劣天气原本只是反常现象，现在却频繁发生；亚洲饮食习惯西方化；生物燃料需求走强——最后这一点已经导致棕榈油价格在过去18个月上涨逾一倍。

December 16th used to be a day to remember white settlers clashing with the Zulus in 1838; now it is the Day of Reconciliation.

现在它是象征和平共处的日子了。

And to its neighbors, the capital of the Republic of the Congo Brazzaville to distinguish, used to be known as the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, said the Republic of the Congo.

为了和其邻国，首都为布拉柴维尔的刚果共和国相区别，习惯上将刚果民主共和国称作刚果，刚果共和国称刚果。

I used to be an Expos fan, but when the team was bought and relocated to Washington and Guerrero got traded to Anaheim, I quickly became an Angels' fan.

我之前是博览会队的球迷，但当球队被移到华盛顿以及葛雷诺被转到安纳汉天使队后，我很快就变成天使队的球迷。

In the VPRO building in Hilversum, we discovered the qualities of the villas where the company used to be located; a folded up strip of paper with diagrams is enough to explain the MEENT DEPARTMENT STORE BUILDING; in the MOLENSLOOT housing, the word carpet is able to give shape to the whole construction.

在Hilversum的VPRO项目中，我们发现了这个公司以前的地址的某种特质；一张折叠的小纸条就足以解释MEENT DEPARTMENT STORE BUILDING；在MOLENSLOOT，地毯一词足以给整个建筑赋形。

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。