Please tell me which one is correct? Please tell me which one is correct? To have doubts towards dollars long term prospects To have doubts towards dollar’s long term prospects To have doubts about the dollars long term prospects To have doubts about the dollar’s long term prospectssorry, those are the full sentences. The recent American debt crisis has caused even more people to have doubts towards dollars long term prospects. The recent American debt crisis has caused even more people have doubts towards dollar’s long term prospects. The recent American debt crisis has caused even more people have doubts about the dollars long term prospects. The recent American debt crisis has caused even more people have doubts about the dollar’s long term prospects.

Please tell me why does here use the brackets? [The withdrawal date] Please tell me why does here use the brackets? What’s the function of brackets in this sentence? But McChrystal said Obama’s additional goal to begin withdrawing U.S. troops in July 2011 will force Afghan officials to take the lead on ensuring their country’s security. “[The withdrawal date] tells people that we cannot have an endless surge of a significant number of combat forces,” he said. “It’s a forcing function to make people step up.”

Does it mean “has made a promise to supply troops” or “has made a total 100,000 promise”? President Obama announced last week the deployment of another 30,000 U.S. forces to Afghanistan, increasing the total U.S. troop commitment to almost 100,000, while at least 25 other countries have pledged another 7,000 troops. What does “commitment to almost 100,000” mean? Does it mean “has made a promise to supply troops” or “has made a total 100,000 promise”?

“I Only Came to Use the Phone” (4) 英译中 “I Only Came to Use the Phone” (4) 英译中 By Gabriel García Márquez The passengers, just visible in the dim light of a lamp in the courtyard, sat motionless until the woman with the military air ordered them out of the bus with the kind of primitive directions used in nursery school. They were all older women, and their movements were so lethargic in the half-light of the courtyard that they looked like images in a dream. Maria, the last to climb down, thought they were nuns. She was less certain when she saw several women in uniform who received them at the door of the bus, pulled the blankets over their heads to keep them dry, and lined them up single file, directing them not by speaking but with rhythmic, peremptory clapping. Maria said good-bye and tried to give the blanket to the woman whose seat she had shared, but the woman told her to use it to cover her head while she crossed the courtyard and then return it at the porter’s office. 《我只是来用一下电话》(4) 英译中 作者：加夫列尔•加西亚•马尔克斯 在庭院微弱的灯光下才看得见的乘客们静止不动地坐着，直到那个样子像军人的女人，用一种适用在托儿所的简单指示命令她们下车。她们都是年长的女人，并且她们的动作在庭院昏暗的灯光下是如此的了无生气，以致于她们看起来就像是梦中的影像。玛利亚最后一个爬下车，她认为她们是修女。但她也不太确定，当她看到几个穿制服的女人在汽车门口迎接她们，把毯子拉过她们的头顶以使得她们不被淋湿，并把她们排成一个单行，没有使用讲话指引她们，而是使用有节奏的、强制性的鼓掌声。玛利亚试图把毯子归还给那个跟她分享座位的女人并对她说再见，但那个女人告诉她，用这个毯子来盖住头穿过庭院，然后把毯子归还给门房。

look over one's shoulder Maria looked over her shoulder and saw that the bus was full of women. Does this sentence mean Maria turned her head and checked carefully and saw that the bus was full of women?

“I Only Came to Use the Phone” (3) “I Only Came to Use the Phone” (3) By Gabriel García Márquez Maria looked over her shoulder and saw that the bus was full of women of uncertain ages and varying conditions who were sleeping in blankets just like hers. Their serenity was contagious, and Maria curled up in her seat and succumbed to the sound of the rain. When she awoke, it was dark and the storm had dissolved into an icy drizzle. She had no idea how long she had slept or what place in the world they had come to. Her neighbor looked watchful. “Where are we?” Maria asked. “We’ve arrived,” answered the woman. The bus was entering the cobbled courtyard of an enormous, gloomy building that seemed to be an old convent in a forest of colossal trees. 《我只是来用一下电话》(3) 作者：加夫列尔•加西亚•马尔克斯 玛利亚转过头来细心察看，看到公交车里装满了不确定年龄和像她一样不同情况的女人，正睡在毯子里。她们的平静可以传染，玛利亚蜷缩在她的座位上屈服了雨水的声音。当她醒来时，天黑了，暴风雨变成了冰冷的细雨。她不知道自己睡了多久，或她们已经来到了什么地方。她旁边的女人看上去很警觉。 “我们在哪里？”玛利亚问。 “我们已经到了。”那个女人说。 公交车正进入一个看起来像是老修道院的凶恶阴郁的建筑物的铺有鹅卵石的庭院，在巨大的乔木森林中。

what does this sentence mean? "A woman with a military air was sitting next to the driver." Does this sentence mean a woman who wore a military air suit next to the driver?

“I Only Came to Use the Phone” (2) “I Only Came to Use the Phone” (2) By Gabriel García Márquez That was true, and she needed it only to let her husband know that she would not be home before seven. Wearing a student’s coat and beach shoes in April, she looked like a bedraggled little bird, and she was so distraught after her mishap that she forgot to take the car keys. A woman with a military air was sitting next to the driver, and she gave Maria a towel and a blanket and made room for her on the seat. Maria wiped off the worst of the rain and then sat down, wrapped herself in the blanket, and tried to light a cigarette, but her matches were wet. The woman sharing the seat gave her a light and asked for one of the few cigarettes that were still dry. While they smoked, Maria gave in to a desire vent her feelings and raised her voice over the noise of the rain and the clatter of the bus. The woman interrupted her by placing a fore finger to her lips. “They’re asleep,” she whispered. 《我只是来用一下电话》(2) 作者：加夫列尔•加西亚•马尔克斯 那是真的，她需要电话只是让她的丈夫知道她七点之前不会在家。在4月穿着学生的外套和沙滩鞋，她看起来就像一只湿漉漉的小鸟，并且她是如此的心烦意乱，在她倒霉的发现她忘记拿车钥匙之后。一个穿着军用飞机制服的女人，坐在司机的旁边，她给了玛利亚一条毛巾和一个毯子，并在座位上给她腾出空间。玛利亚擦掉糟糕的雨水然后坐下，把她自己包裹在毯子里，试着点燃一支香烟，但是她的火柴湿了。跟她分享座位的女人给了她一个火，并找她要了仍然干着的一些香烟中的一支。当她们抽烟时，玛利亚想要狠狠发泄一下，她提高了嗓门，声音超高过了雨水的噪音和公交车的咔哒声。那个女人把食指放在她的嘴唇上打断了她。 “他们睡着了。”她低声说。

“I Only Came to Use the Phone” (1) “I Only Came to Use the Phone” (1) By Gabriel García Márquez One rainy spring afternoon, while Maria de la Luz Cervantes was driving alone back to Barcelona, her rented car broke down in the Monegros desert. She was twenty-seven years old, a thoughtful, pretty Mexican who had enjoyed a certain fame as a music hall performer a few years earlier. She was married to a cabaret magician, whom she was to meet later that day after visiting some signals to the cars and trucks that sped past her in the storm, until at last the driver of a ramshackle bus took pity on her. He did warn her, however, that he was not going very far. “It doesn’t matter,” said Maria. “All I need is a telephone.” 《我只是来用一下电话》(1) 作者：加夫列尔•加西亚•马尔克斯 一个春天下雨的下午，当玛丽亚•de la Luz塞万提斯正独自开车返回巴塞罗那，她租的车子在Monegros沙漠坏了。她27岁，是一个周到、漂亮的墨西哥人，几年前作为一个音乐厅演出者就已经享有一定知名度了。她嫁给了一个歌舞表演魔术师，她当天的晚些时候正要去见他。她看到一些汽车和卡车在暴风雨中从她身边疾驰而过，直到最后，一个开着摇摇欲坠的公交车的司机同情她。不过司机告诉她，他不会开很远。 “没关系，”玛利亚说。“我需要的只是一个电话。”