They ask more questions when I bring up the topic of life as an American teenager than when I try to explain gerunds.

当我把话题转到美国少男少女的生活时，他们提出的问题就比我在解释动名词时更多。

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In most cases, there is little or no difference in meaning between the sentences with gerunds and the sentences with infinitives.

大多数情况下，动名词和不定式之间在意思单上是没有或是一点点区别的。

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Pick out the participles or gerunds in the following sentences and give their functions.

区别下列句子中的分词和动名词，并说明它们的作用。

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But alas, for all the colour and comic-strip fun of modern Latin textbooks, there is no way to the literature that does not go via 14 the horrible wild places where ablatives and gerunds live.

ECONOMIST: So you thought that irksome language was dead?