1. The odds are in your favour because you have more experience.
    你经验丰富, 成功的机会居多.

2. They would have continued to struggle against economic odds and would have lived in obscurity.
    这家人会继续为克服经济上的拮据而奋斗，并默默无闻地活下去。

3. Today the work goes on, for at any moment disaster may strike somewhere, and the Red Cross must be ready to journey to the ends of the earth, if necessary, and bring relief.
    如今，红十字会的工作仍在照常进行，因为随时都可能出现灾情，一旦需要，红十字会将奔赴天涯海角，提供救援。

4. Two widely separated strings hang from a ceiling. Even though you can't reach both at once, is it possible to tie their ends together, using only a pair of pliers?
    两根相距甚远的绳子分别从天花板上垂下来。尽管你无法同时够到两根绳子，但有没有可能只用一把钳子就把两根绳子系到一起呢？

5. He sees practical applications everywhere for how companies should decide whom to hire, how couples can increase the odds that their marriages will last, how parents should raise their children and how schools should teach them.
    他认为这处处都用得上，如公司该如何决定聘用什么人，夫妇该如何提高婚姻延续的可能性，父母该如何培养孩子，学校该如何教育孩子。

6. And that this happens at a rate which differs little from person to person, so that there are heavy odds in favour of our dying between the ages of sixty-five and eighty.
    衰老的速度在人与人之间相差甚微，我们最可能死亡的年龄在65至80岁之间，

7. And the ground was covered with pieces of paper, cigarette ends, old tyres, empty bottles and rusty tins.
    而满地都是纸片、烟头、旧轮胎，空瓶子和生锈的空罐头盒。

8. And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April 1st.
    今天 -- 4月1日，星期四--的专题新闻节目到此结束。

9. Another interesting fact about this hall is that while fourteen thousand workers were employed in its construction, citizens of Beijing could give whatever volunteer help they wanted to, and many thousands did so at week-ends, in the evenings, or dur
    关天大会堂，还有一件事值得提起。当一万四千名工人施工时，北京市民自愿提供各种帮助，几万名市民利用周末、晚上或节假日参加义务劳动。

10. As it swung back and forth, he walked quickly to the other string and drew it as far forward as it would reach. Then he caught the swinging string when it passed near him and tied the two ends.
    在绳子来回摆动的时候，他迅速走到另一根绳子那儿，将其尽量向前拉。当摆动的绳子靠近他时，他把它抓住，于是将两根绳子就系到一起。

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