1. What we are trying to avoid is neutrality; the only people with any qualification to decide are those who know the patient intimately and can put his or her interests first.
    我们试图避免的就是中立。惟一有权做出决定的，是那些非常熟悉病人的人，能将病人的利益放在首位的人。

2. With the combination of intelligence and manual skill (allowing us to make and use tools), people have found ways to use plant and animal resources, mineral ores, fuels, and many other of Earth's materials and resources.
    由于智力与手工技能的结合（使得人类能够制造和使用工具），人们已经发现了诸多利用地球动植物资源、矿产资源、燃料和许多其他物产和资源的方法。

3. Wilmut maintains that cloning animals has tremendous potential for helping people.
    威尔莫特坚持认为，克隆动物具有帮助人类的巨大潜力。

4. What people call the new Love Family, unfortunately, has replaced a permanent relationship with a new ideal of unlimited choice.
    不幸的是，人们称之为 "情爱家庭"的新模式以无约束的选择这一理想化的做法取代了夫妻间长相厮守的关系。

5. We can even, if we want, interpret the term "family" to include people who are not related to us either by blood or marriage — a set of close friends who support one another, like the women I mentioned above.
    愿意的话我们甚至可以把 "家庭"看作包括一些与我们既无血缘关系、又无婚姻关系的人 --一些互相扶持的亲密朋友，就像前面所提到的那些女士。

6. 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。

7. Women in Kenya make up 60 percent of the people who vote, but only 3 percent of the National Assembly.
    肯尼亚妇女占选民人数的60%，但在国民大会中的席位仅3%。

8. The next-door neighbours are amiable people.
    隔壁邻居们都是和蔼可亲的人。

9. The car tempts people further out and then gives them the appalling problem of getting back.
    小汽车引诱着人们出远门，却又给人们造成可怕的返回问题。

10. The autocrat was replaced by a ruler responsible to the people.
    那独裁者被一位对人民负责的统治者取代了。