1. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things.
    在我看来，所有这些使他们与生命和万物之源联系在了一起。

2. As he hated army life, he decided to desert his regiment.
    他讨厌军旅生活，决定逃离所在部队。

3. As the parents had five children, life was a perpetual struggle against poverty.
    家里已有5个孩子，全家人常年在贫困中挣扎。

4. A recent survey of the effects of noise revealed (surprisingly?) that dogs barking incessantly in the night rated the highest form of noise pollution on a scale ranging from 1 to 7.
    最近一个有关噪音的作用的调查（令人吃惊地）指出，夜间连续不断的狗叫声，在一个从1级至7级刻度表上应列为最严重的噪间污染。

5. A planet would have to be a very long way from it to be capable of supporting life.
    那么一颗行星为了维持生命就要离开的它的恒星非常远。

6. Alternatively, if the star were small, the life-supporting planet would have to have a close orbit round it and also provide the perfect conditions for life forms to develop.
    反之，如果恒星很小，维持生命的行星就要在离恒星很近的轨道上运行，而且要有极好的条件才能使生命得以发展，

7. At present, there is no telescope in existence that is capable of detecting the presence of life.
    现在，没有一台现存的望远镜可以发现生命的存在。

8. A telescope would have to be as far away as the planet Jupiter to look for life in outer space,
    望远镜要放置在木星那样遥远的行星上才有可能在外层空间搜寻生命。

9. As Daniel Goldin of NASA observed, ´Finding life elsewhere would change everything.
    正如美国国家航空和宇宙航空局的丹尼尔.戈尔丁指出的"在其他地方发现生命会改变一切。

10. ´Mr. Lane was defeated in the elections. He has retired from political life and gone to live abroad!´
    "莱恩先生在大选中被击败了，他已经退出了政界去国外了！"