In 1997, despite an economy that marked its sixth full year of uninterrupted expansion with the lowest jobless rate in a quarter century, the number of United States citizens to declare themselves bankrupt jumped almost by 20 percent, at 1.34 million.
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gmat700的猫的喷嚏 2016-12-19 23:18:00
at表示一个具体的时间点，一个数值，而to表示一个估计值，一段数字，所以用to
停不下来的雕兄 2016-12-23 20:53:05
(i) both of those constructions have their place in the english language. the infinitive construction, though, is usually used in one of the following situations: a) the action is to take place in the future: my block has five houses to be sold in foreclosure b) you're talking about some sort of historical accounting: pete rose became the second baseball player in history to amass 4000 career hits in this case, the '-ing' construction just sounds better to my 'native speaker's ear'. i'm not sure whether you're a native speaker (if you're not, your english is quite good), but it certainly helps for these sorts of borderline cases. (ii) 'by almost x percent' is the correct form, because the quantity did jump - by an amount that was almost x percent (and you therefore shouldn't break those words up).
diwujibingqi 2014-08-24 10:45:45
to declare 表状态做表语，这里用这种表达不简洁
