1. They build large dams to store water in huge man-made lakes.
    为了把水储存在巨大的人工湖里，人们建造了巨大的水坝。

2. The things that initially made you feel uncomfortable or strange are now things that you understand.
    最初使你感到不舒服或陌生的东西，现在已成了你能理解的东西了。

3. The teacher spanked him and made him stand in a corner. He was awfully (非常) fresh."
    老师打了他，还叫他立壁角。他非常无礼。"

4. The third day — it was Wednesday of the first week — Charles banged a see-saw (翘翘板) on to the head of a little girl and made her bleed, and the teacher made him stay inside all during morning break.
    第三天 -- 这是第一周的星期三 -- 查尔斯玩翘翘板时砸到了一个小女孩的头，她的头流了血，因此老师命令他在早晨休息的时候一直呆在教室里面。

5. The aim was to look like street people and to observe what difference that made in the way other people responded to us — whether the appearance of poverty would invite prejudice on us.
    我们的目的是为了让自己看上去像漂泊街头的人，以观察别人对我们会有何不同反应——贫穷的外表是否会招致对我们的歧视。

6. The personal computer revolution and the invention of the Internet made the demand for skilled labor mushroom to such tremendous proportions that even if every American child were to study nothing but science from now on, we would be unable to keep p
    个人电脑革命和因特网的诞生导致了对熟练劳动者的需求猛增，以至从现在起即使每个美国孩子都去自然科学，我们在今后的几十年里还是无法赶上这种需求的增长速度。

7. The medicine he had been given because of the pain from his heart attack made his eyes weak and he only dimly saw the young man in Marine Corps uniform standing outside the oxygen tent.
    老人所服用的医治心脏病的药物损害了他的视力。所以他只能模模糊糊看见一个年轻人，身穿海军陆战队军服，站在氧气帐外。

8. Think of times when you know you made a good impression. What made you successful?
    想想有哪几次你确切知道你给人留下了好印象。你成功的原因又是什么？

9. Today people from the neighborhood, which is made up mostly of expensive one-family homes with the exception of the two apartment houses near the railroad station, find it difficult to explain why they didn't call the police.
    该住宅区的居民多住在豪华的独门独户别墅，只有火车站附近有两幢公寓楼。他们都感到很难解释自己当初为何没有报警。

10. The low attendance is in spite of commitments they made at the outset of the program when Hyde officials interviewed 300 families.
    这一低出席率违背了他们在教学计划开始实施时所做的承诺，当时海德中学的官员曾走访了300个家庭。