1. Stimulating parents were more actively involved in what their children did, steering them towards certain fields and pushing them to work hard, often acting as a tutor.
    激励型的家长会更主动地参与到孩子们的活动中去，在某些领域里带领他们前行，推动他们努力，通常起着导师的作用。

2. Poor food and hard work impaired her health and she became thin .
    不好的食物和辛苦的工作损害她的健康，使她变瘦了。

3. Pickles! If one can make a fortune on that, well — it shouldn't be hard to achieve prosperity in this country.
    泡菜！假如一个人能靠它发大财，那么在这个国家发财致富应该是不难的。

4. My wife was wearing a hat that looked like a lighthouse!
    我妻子戴着一顶看上去象一座灯塔的帽子。

5. My father´s philosophy is to work hard and be kind to others.
    我父亲的处世哲学是：努力工作，与人为善。

6. My wife was wearing a hat that looked like a lighthouse!
    我妻子戴着一顶像灯塔一样的帽子。

7. Make no mistake, her hard life had not knocked the spirit out of her.
    别搞错了，那艰辛的生活并没有将她的精神摧垮。

8. Marx was in poor health then, but was hard at work on the first volume of Capital.
    马克思那时身体欠佳，但他还在努力写他《资本论》的第一卷。

9. My father died from "the poor man's friend", pneumonia, one hard winter when his lung illnesses had left him low.
    肺病把我父亲折磨得虚弱不堪, 一个严冬，他死于被叫做"穷人的朋友"的疾病——肺炎。

10. My great-aunt led me through a rotting (朽烂的) doorway into a room with a furnace (炉子), table, and a rocking chair where an old woman wearing gloves sat facing the doorway, covered with a worn brown blanket.
    我姨婆领我穿过一条破旧的门道，走进了一个房间，里面有一个火炉、一张桌子和一张摇椅。