1. This desire to possess and control others made my mother very angry (and then guilty that she felt that way, when of course she owed so much to her mother).
    这种占有和控制他人的欲望使我妈非常生气（可接着她又为自己这样想感到内疚，毕竟她欠自己的母亲那么多）。

2. The assumption is that we are unstoppable in our desire to consume.
    据推测这是因为我们美国人的消费欲望无法遏止。

3. The stronger the desire grew to bring herself near him, the further, in fact, did she move away from him.
    她越想靠近他，结果却越往后退。

4. That is, Gaston greatly desired it; but this desire yielded to his honorable wife's vigorous opposition.
    也就是说，加斯顿很希望这样，但经不住他那品行高洁的妻子的强烈反对。

5. The modern nuclear family was rooted in the desire to live happily in a more equal marriage,
    现代核心家庭原本基于对更为平等的婚姻关系中幸福生活的渴望。

6. Not only did I lose my joy in answering questions, but also I totally lost my desire to say anything at all in English.
    我不仅失去了回答问题的乐趣，而且根本就不想再用英语说半个字。

7. Now, all there was left with him was a desire to be permitted to exist, with now and then a little breath of genuine life, such as he was breathing now.
    而现在他只求能生存，只是偶尔才体验到一丝真正的生活的气息，就像此刻。

8. His desire of returning to his family is natural.
    他想回家是很自然的。

9. Having decided to go to prison, Soapy at once set about fulfilling his desire.
    下了决心要进监狱，苏比就立即着手实现这一愿望。

10. He had discovered a great law of human action without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy desire a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
    他不知不觉发现了人类行为的一个伟大的定律——那就是，若要使人追求一物，只要让它难以到手就行了。