1. But studying my textbooks late at night in the library of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), I would dream, not of India, but of America, the land of opportunity.
    但是, 当我深夜在印度技术学院的图书馆里啃着书本的时候，我脑子经常想的不是印度，而是美国这个机会之国。

2. But he felt pretty good he had been one of the lucky ones, who had received his shots to make him young again before he turned 40, so he was still a young-looking fellow.
    他曾经是那些幸运者中的一个，这些幸运者在40岁之前接受了重返青春的注射，因此他看上去仍像个年轻人。

3. Before we go any further, it might make sense to require a temporary pause on research into human cloning in order to make a systematic enquiry into the grave questions it raises.
    在我们尚未继续前进之前，最好是先要求暂时停止克隆人类的研究，以便系统地研究它所引发的深刻问题。

4. But make no mistake about it, what most of them are about is money — and how financial assets will be divided up if a couple divorces.
    但是不要弄错了，大多数婚前协议涉及到的都是钱——以及如果夫妻一旦离婚该怎样分配财产。

5. By taking people as they are, we make them worse, but by treating them as if they already were what they ought to be, we help make them better.
    视人静止不变，则令其退步，而视其进步发展、待他如同他的潜力已经发挥，则助其进步。

6. Before he got the job, Mr. Torres was determined to escape the workshop run by the Lighthouse (灯塔), an organization dedicated to help people who can't see, and to try to make it on his own.
    得到这份工作之前，他就决心离开"灯塔"所经营的一个工场——"灯塔"是一个专门为盲人提供帮助的机构。他想靠自己的能力去工作。

7. But while the Internet primarily moves words, the information superhighway will soon make routine the electronic transmission of data in other formats, such as audio files and images.
    但是，互联网主要是传送文字，而信息高速公路不久将使其他形式的电子数据传送（如声音资料和图像的传送）成为常规。

8. Who was that blonde I saw you with last night?
    昨晚我看见和你一道的那个金发女郎是谁?

9. We played checkers and ate melon seeds and peanuts all night.
    我们整个晚上都在下西洋棋, 吃瓜子和花生.

10. We make bricks from clay.
    我们用泥土制砖。