When adding a modifier like "active" before a compound of nouns like "termites and organisms", be sure to clarify whether you intend the modifier to apply to both nouns or just the first one.

当一组名词(如“白蚁和有机体”)前有一个修饰语(如“活动着的”)时，你一定要弄清楚这个修饰语是修饰两个名词还是仅仅修饰第一个名词。

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"Sometimes one sees writers just standing before it, like early hominids in front of a monolith," said Nick Denton, Gawker Media's founder. Mr. Denton said not all writers have warmed to the concept.

“有时有人会注意到作者们只是站在它面前，犹如原始人类站在巨石前一样，”高科传媒的创始人尼克·丹顿说。

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You say I have changed, I admit it. I'm just not sticking to you like I did before. It's only because I can't waste my love on the one who has never loved me.

你说我变了，我承认。我只是没有像以前那样对你死缠烂打。因为，我不能为了一个没爱过我的人浪费感情。

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In Portland, Karen Willis Beal got her dream wedding on Saturday complete with a snowstorm just like the one that hit before her parents married in December 1970.

WSJ: Northeast trying to get back on track after storm

As you can see this is not a place of fantastic design but given that you have access to pictures like the one taken from Apollo 13 just before the side of the command module blew away after an explosion - who needs fantastic design?

BBC: Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

All of them had been contacted just one day before and asked if they would like to stand behind the President, and several said it had been a hectic but exciting 24 hours.

WHITEHOUSE: So Who Were Those 14 People Standing Behind the President?