【正文】 As a result, we see appalling inequalities in the distribution of free time between the sexes.One is an attempt to gain the largest possible amount of satisfaction from the smallest possible investment of time.Anything that helps streamline our lives is a growth market. 任何能幫助我們提高生活效率的事物都有越做越大的市場。4） 可怕的爆炸引起了一場大火，并造成這幢大樓部分倒塌。But I needn’t have hurried。 the veins stood out on it and it was almost transparent.他用瘦小的手摸了摸剃得光光的下巴；手上青筋鼓起，手白得幾乎透明。課文內(nèi)容perceived the society and himselfFor my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.拿我自己來說，我發(fā)現(xiàn)，認(rèn)識一個人的時間越長，我就越感到困惑。2） 即使置身于一個嘈雜的環(huán)境中，他也能堅持做手頭的工作。National identity makes no difference for me,” he says.Although Browder and Mandl define their nationality differently, both see their identity as a matter of personal choice, not an accident of birth.雖然布勞德和曼德爾對各自的國籍界定不同，他們都將國籍視為個人選擇，而不是由出生地決定的。2）我喜歡雇傭年輕人，他們愿意學(xué)習(xí)，而且忠于職守。But it takes no longer to prepare well for one interview than to wander in halfprepared for five. You see, a goal is a dream with a deadline: in writing, measurable, identifiable, attainable. 要知道，所謂目標(biāo)就是有最后限期的夢想：寫成文字，可測量，可確認(rèn)，可實現(xiàn)。5）當(dāng)人們得知地震災(zāi)區(qū)將要建造結(jié)構(gòu)更牢固的新校舍時，紛紛慷慨解囊。3）我們有技術(shù)，我們的合伙人有資金。 The key to tomorrow’s “smart cars” will be sensors. Should you make a serious driving mistake (., change lanes when there is a car in your “blind spot”) the puter would sound an immediate warning. To eliminate this, a tiny camera hidden in the dashboard can be trained on a driver’s face and eyes. Sensors in your car tuned to radio signals from orbiting satellites can locate your car precisely at any moment and warn of traffic jams. They make it possible to determine your location on the earth to within about a hundred feet.通過這些衛(wèi)星我們有可能以小于100英尺的誤差確定你在地球上的方位。2） 在某些非洲國家城市的擴(kuò)展已引起生活水平相當(dāng)大的下降和社會問題的增多。 Hitler expected a short campaign but, like Napoleon before him, was taught a painful lesson. Napoleon offered a truce to Alexander I, but the Russian czar knew he could bide his time: “We shall let the Russian winter fight the war for us.” The Russian winter again came to the aid of the Soviet soldiers. The Grand Army followed, but its advance march soon became bogged down by slowmoving supply lines.大軍緊追不舍，但它的長驅(qū)直入很快由于糧草運(yùn)輸緩慢而停頓下來。3） 菲爾已經(jīng)三個月沒有找到工作了，正在變得越來越絕望。We would eat chicken that night in the village,together with rice,onionsand heaps of fruit. 孩子們唱著唱著興奮起來，紛紛從木凳上站起，簇?fù)碓趦晌恍夼砼裕质翘?，又是沖著我們笑。 Being the gateway to the surrounding ski areas,all of the shops were geared towards the great outdoors.由于它是到四周滑雪場的入口，所有店鋪的業(yè)務(wù)都圍繞著廣闊的野外世界展開。但對在這一事件中失去親人的人們而言，時間能填補(bǔ)他們心中的空白嗎？People say that time heals all for those who have lost their loved ones in the event,will time fill up the void in their hearts?Test eight We had disembarked at the village that afternoon,and I has slumped on some shaded steps,wishing I knew some Spanish.我們是那天下午在這個小村上岸的，我癱倒在樹蔭下的臺階上，真希望自己會說幾句西班牙語。There was only wreckage and smoke and fire where the World Trade Center used to be. 新聞評論員稱這次襲擊是第二次珍珠港事件，時至今日該事件一直是我們最悲慘的時刻。 A new generation of firefighters and cops tried to fill the shoes of those who were lost,a new generation of orphans faced a future uncertain.新一代的消防隊員和警察前仆后繼接替了死者的崗位，新一代的孤兒面對著未卜的前途。Everyone talks about pressure so much that about 50 percent of unemployed or retired people will tell you they never have enough time to get things done. 除不平等外，時間不夠用的感覺也普遍存在，并引起了廣泛反響。but as we have already noted,technology did not end household chores.家用器具的更新?lián)Q代或許鼓勵婦女去做有報酬的工作，但正如我們已經(jīng)注意到的，技術(shù)發(fā)展并沒有掃除家務(wù)雜活。 The stress we feel arises not from a shortage of time,but from the surfeit of things we try to cram into it.我們的緊張感并非源于時間短缺，而是因為我們試圖在一個個時段中塞入過多的內(nèi)容。He was a tiny little fellow,very slender,with white hair,a red face much wrinkled, and blue eyes. 無論在玩牌的時候，還是在后來一起喝酒的時候，他的話都不多，但說的話卻都合情合理。 I watched Mike as he clung to h