1. Expand your world. Many discoveries in science, engineering and the arts mix ideas from different fields. Consider "The Two-String Problem."
    拓展你的视野。许多理工和人文科学方面的发现都融合了不同领域中的思想。以"两绳问题"为例。

2. Besides criminal history, workers' insurance claims, and civil court records, one of their core products is credit information, which isn't always accurate.
    除了犯罪记录、劳工保险索赔、民事法庭记录外，这些公司的核心产品之一是信用信息，而这种信用信息却并非总是准确的。

3. We were tired of being pushed around by officious civil servants.
    我们厌恶那些把我们支来支去的公务员.

4. When surveyors ask U.S. female high-school students what they are going to do when they graduate, they list all kinds of roles they want to fill, like doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, civil servants, police and firemen, and fighter pilots.
    当调查人员询问美国女中学生们毕业后打算做什么时，她们列出了各种各样她们所喜欢做的工作，如当医生、律师、工程师、会计、文职官员、警察、消防员以及战斗机驾驶员。

5. Widespread access to information technologies, for example, promises to condense the time required to change from labor- intensive assembly work to industries that involve engineering, marketing, and design.
    例如，信息技术的广泛应用有望缩短从劳动密集型的组装工业转向涉及工程、营销、设计等产业所需的时间。

6. This simple truth was demonstrated rather dramatically during a civil defence exercise in a small town in Canada.
    这个简单的事实在加拿大一个小镇的一次民防演习中颇为戏剧性地展示出来.

7. The Swedes were the first to recognize that public officials like civil servants, police officers, health inspectors or tax-collectors can make mistakes or act over-zealously in the belief that they are serving the public.
    是瑞典人首先认识到政府工作人员如文职人员、警官、卫生稽查员、税务人员等等也会犯错误或者自以为在为公众服务而把事情做过了头。

8. The gravest concern isn't really cloning itself, but genetic engineering — the deliberate altering of genes to create human beings according to certain requirements.
    最让人担心的不是克隆本身，而是基因工程——即根据特定的要求故意改变基因以创造人类。

9. The period following the Civil War said "Get set!";
    内战后的那段时期说"预备！

10. He is a civil servant.
    他是公务员。