1. Even he still lives under the illusion that country life is somehow superior to town life. 即使他也仍存有幻觉,好像乡村生活就是比城市生活优越。
2. But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets, four girls and a boy, an even which radically changed their lives. 但是他们突然变成了五胞胎的父母:四个女孩一个男孩。
3. But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets, four girls and a boy, an event which radically changed their lives. 但是他们出人意料生了个五胞胎,4女1男。这事使他们的生活发生了根本的变化。
4. But he lives so far away, and it is such a bad night that I have decided to ask you to go instead. 但是他住得离这儿那么远,天气又这么糟糕,所以我决定请你替我跑一趟。
5. We know instinctively,that misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our lives were not related to it. 我们本能地懂得,如果我们不把生活中的重大事情讲给它听,不幸将会突然袭击我们。
6. We enjoy reading about them, especially when we find that, like the praying mantis, they lead perfectly horrible lives. 我们喜欢看有关昆虫的书,尤其是当我们了解螳螂等过着一种令人生畏的生活时,就更加爱读有关昆虫的书了。
7. We know instinctively, just as beekeepers with their bees, that misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our lives were not related to it. 我们本能地懂得,就像养蜂人和他的蜜蜂那样,如果不把生活中的重大事件告诉那条河,就可能大祸临头。
8. We pay with our lives!" 我们付出的是生命!”
9. Workaholism is a problem that has been evident since the Stone Age whenever people have sought to escape other parts of their lives through work. 工作狂自石器时代起就成了一个很明显的问题了——每当人们试图通过工作来逃避他们生活中的其他部分时就会出现这个问题。
10. What divorce does is to damage children, making them into refugees as the people in their lives scatter in all directions. 离婚造成的是对孩子的伤害,使他们随着身边人的离散而成了流亡者。