1. The trainer stands in front of the elephant holding a long stick with a sharp metal point. 驯练员手持一根有锋利金属尖头的长棒,站在象前。
2. The highest point of the earth is in Asia. 地球的最高点在亚洲,
3. The surface of his pyramid used to shine with smooth white limestone, and its top came to a sharp point. 以前,大金字塔表面光滑的白石灰石非常耀眼,塔的顶端很尖。
4. That point was emphasized by the fact that Gail's parents, after thirty-five years of marriage, were going through a bitter and painful divorce, which had destroyed Gail and for a time had a negative effect on our budding relationship. 下列事实强调了这样一点:已经结婚35年的盖尔父母正经历着一场充满怨恨、令人痛苦的婚变,这件事给了盖尔以毁灭性的打击, 并一度给我们正处于萌芽状态的关系带来了负面的影响。
5. There was no middle point. They had a simple saying hanging on their living-room wall: "Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show." 两者之间没有折中可言。在他们起居室的墙上挂着一幅字,上面写着一句朴实无华的格言:“生活如雪后初霁的大地。足之所至,迹必留之。”
6. The difference is this: in "I to you", both sides present their arguments openly from their own point of view — they state what they want and what they expect to get. 差别在于:在"我对你"的方式中,双方都坦率地从自己的观点出发提出主张——他们说出自己想要什么,希望得到什么。
7. The "you to you" approach practiced in Japan is based on each side — automatically and often unconsciously — trying to understand the other person's point of view. 日本人所采用的"你对你"的方式则建立在各方——自然而然地并常常是下意识地——力图理解对方观点的基础之上。
8. There she stayed, most of the afternoon, playing and singing and drinking from her bottle, sleeping at one point, leaning against my grandmother's leg. 大半个下午,她就待在那儿玩玩具,唱歌,从瓶子里喝水,有一会儿还枕着外婆的腿睡着了。
9. The whole point of marriage is that it imposes clear obligations, not just the right to pursue your own happiness. 婚姻的全部意义就在于它予以夫妻双方清晰的责任义务,而不仅仅是追求个人幸福的权利。
10. The same map, in combination with ancient human bones, confirms that Africa was the birthplace of humanity and thus the starting point of the original human movements. 结合对远古人骨的研究,这一图谱证实了非洲是人类的诞生地,因而也是人类迁移的始发地。