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overwhelmingTranslation 1. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words and expressions given in brackets.▆ Answers for reference:1) In either friendship or love / In both friendship and love, you should never expect to take / receive the maximum while you give the minimum.2) I built all my hopes on his promise(s), only to find that he was not a man of sincerity at all.3) We took Mother to all the best hospitals we could find, but all our efforts were in vain。 she failed to survive the disease.4) Valentine’s Day is an annual holiday celebrated on February 14, a perfect day to express love to the object of your / one’s affection.5) In the information era, munications with faraway friends via can be almost / virtually simultaneous.6) Love needs to be nurtured, and the “eternal / everlasting love” that we all dream to have is not forged until we learn to appreciate and tolerate the other.2. Translate the following paragraph into English, using the words and expressions in the box below.▆ Answers for reference:After dinner, we all sat around the hearth. Aunt Susan was still in the grief of losing Uncle Robert. In her soft voice she told us about their past years. Uncle Robert joined the army shortly after they were engaged. Given the critical situation at the time when lots of army men didn’t return alive, you can imagine how much horrified Aunt Susan was every day, and how much overjoyed she was to see Uncle Robert back safe and sound from the European battlefield. Then they got married and brought up five children. For all those years, their affection for each other grew stronger in the course of overing difficulties and hardships in life. I was fascinated by Aunt Susan’s story, which was totally different from my ideal of love. They practiced, in their daily life, giving and sharing instead of pursuing passion a