1. Eliot says you can first make a list of 12 things, then cut it down to 6 and set your priorities.
    埃利奥特说，你可以先列出12件事，然后把它压缩到6件，要确定轻重缓急。

2. Energy from nuclear power plants is steadily increasing but the problem of dangerous waste limits growth in many regions.
    核电厂提供的能源在稳步上升，但是在许多地区都因核电厂的有害废料问题而使发展受到限制。

3. Birds have the power to fly.
    鸟能飞。

4. Between twelve and eighty years we gradually lose this power;
    在12岁至80岁之间，我们逐渐丧失这种能力。

5. But people who are cut off not only from foreign tourists, but even from their own countrymen can be hostile to travellers.
    但是，那些不但与外国旅游者隔绝，而且与本国同胞隔绝的人们有可能对游客抱有敌意。

6. But before the Suez Canal was cut in 1869, Asia was also linked to Africa.
    而在这条苏伊士运河1869年开凿之前，亚洲与非洲也是连在一起的。

7. But it was also the era of Sputnik, of nuclear power and the green revolution.
    但这也是个卫星、核能和绿色革命的时代。

8. But after independence, leaders jealous to protect their power shut them out of politics,
    但是独立之后，领导者们惟恐失去自己的权力，将妇女排斥在政界之外。

9. But as a woman's power is still strongly perceived to be tied up with the ability to bear children, ageing demonstrates to the world her decline, her uselessness for her primary function.
    但由于女性的本领仍在很大程度上被看作与生育能力密切相关，年龄增长向世人显示的是她的衰老，就她的首要作用而言她已无用了。

10. Where alternative sources of power are available there are some marked contrasts in handling.
    凡是能源有选择余地的地方, 在处理方面有些显著的差别.