1. The great plain was covered in scrub and small lifeless trees.
    大平原上覆盖着灌木和矮小毫无生气的树。

2. They take great pains to make their lessons easy and interesting, always repeating the same phrases and at the same time doing the thing they are talking about.
    他们尽力使他们的课程变得容易有趣，总是重复相同的短语，并与此同时做他们正在谈论着的事情。

3. The great majority of nations concern themselves with economic development, regardless of its effect on the global ecology.
    绝大多数国家只顾经济发展，而不顾经济发展对全球生态环境的影响。

4. They had been very valuable to me in reporting the army's great victories.
    这些地图在报道徳军所取得的重大胜利时对我很有价值。

5. Then, as the water got hotter, she thought, "This shower feels great and in here I can be alone and sing. No one disturbs me in here."
    过了一会儿，水就越来越热。她想："淋浴的感觉就是好，我可以一个人在这里唱歌，没人打扰我。"

6. The past forty years saw great success in the control of spreading diseases and great strides toward achieving "health for all by the year 2000" (a major WHO goal) through improved basic health care, food, cleanliness, and immunization(免疫)
    在过去的40年中，通过改善基本医疗保健、食品、卫生和免疫等项目，人类在控制流行病方面取得了巨大的进步，并且朝着实现"2000年人人享受健康"（世界卫生组织的一项主要目标）迈出了一大步。

7. The exercise is great; the lifting gets easier with every load, even if my shoulder muscle is sore.
    这可锻炼人哩，虽然肩部肌肉酸痛，可我扛垃圾桶越扛越得心应手了。

8. This is why you hardly ever meet nomads (游牧人) anymore, even though "nomad" is a great job name.
    这就是为什么现在很少再见到"游牧人"的原因，虽然"游牧"这个行业名称听起来挺不错。

9. These precautions can make a great difference in saving lives and preventing the loss of homes.
    在挽救生命和防止家庭损失方面，这些预防措施会发挥很大的作用。

10. This physical transformation, plus the skill with which he executed it again and again, are surely the secrets of Chaplin's great comedy.
    这种对具体事物的发挥转化，以及他一次又一次做出这种转化的技巧，正是卓别林伟大喜剧的奥秘。