英语中 "the"
Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics.Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.When the article arrived,the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it.The article began:'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace'.The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out 【the exact number of steps】 and 【the height of the wall】.
【】里的部分应该是特指吧.
前一个短语的steps前为什么不用the,而后面短语的wall前用了the呢?