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. Though they never had much money, my grandmother saw to it that her daughter had speaking lessons and piano lessons, and assured her that she would go to college.
    虽然他们从来没有多少钱，外婆还是设法让自己的女儿学习演说和钢琴，同时让她相信她可以上大学。

10. There she stayed, most of the afternoon, playing and singing and drinking from her bottle, sleeping at one point, leaning against my grandmother's leg.
    大半个下午，她就待在那儿玩玩具，唱歌，从瓶子里喝水，有一会儿还枕着外婆的腿睡着了。