1. Apparently, wearing high heels pushes your breasts (胸脯) out by changing your center of gravity (重心).
    虽然，穿高跟鞋可以通过改变人的重心而使乳房突出来。

2. "If left in the hands of private enterprise, the data highway could become little more than a synthetic universe for the rich," worries Jeffrey Chester, president of the Center for Media Education in Washington, D.C.
    首都华盛顿大众媒介教育中心主任杰弗里·切斯特担心地说："如果数据高速公路控制在私人企业手中，它可能只会成为富人的虚拟世界。"

3. So, on his tenth birthday, Johnny goes to the brain-control center. He sits for an hour or so under a machine that looks something like a hair-dryer, with him attached to it.
    所以，约翰尼在10岁生日那天来到了大脑控制中心。他坐在一个形似吹风头罩的机器下面，并和机器连接在一起，就这样坐了一个小时左右。

4. My great-aunt picked me up at the training center, and we rode in a taxi through the crowded city.
    我的姨婆到训练中心来接我，随后我们乘坐出租车穿过了这个拥挤的城市。

5. Mr. Torres was beginning the complicated two-hour trip to his job developing film in the X-ray department of the emergency room of the Bronx Municipal (市立的) Hospital Center.
    多里斯先生正准备上班，这一路得花两个小时，十分麻烦。他在布朗克斯市立中心医院的急诊放射科干冲洗胶片的工作。

6. Open-heart surgery at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont (佛蒙特州) used to cost patients an average of $26,300. Today it's $3,000 less.
    在位于佛蒙特州的医疗中心医院，过去开胸手术的平均费用是26,300美元，如今减少了3,000美元。

7. One HMO was threatening to move its heart-surgery patients from Medical Center Hospital to a different hospital, if the Medical Center Hospital didn't get its costs down.
    一家保健组织甚至威胁说，如果医疗中心医院再不降低成本，它就要将其心脏手术病人转出该医院。

8. It is quite exciting to hold the center of the national stage, with the audience not knowing whether to laugh or to weep.
    想想这一点，知道这一点都令人激动不已。占据国内舞台的中心可真刺激，而台下的观众则不知是喜是忧。

9. First,I´ll take you to shoot arrows. Then we´re going to the Tatung Recreation Center to see a dolphin performance.
    首先, 我将带你去射箭, 然后我们到大同乐园看海豚表演.

10. Family is, if anything, the link between generations, the center of child rearing and cultural transmission.
    可以说，家庭是联系两代人的纽带，是养育孩子和传递文化的中心。