1. There were scarcely a hundred people present.
    出席的不足一百人.

2. This modern faith in medicines is proved by the fact that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is mounting to astronomical figures and shows no signs at present of ceasing to rise.
    卫生部门的处度药费上升到了天文数字，并且目前尚无停止上升的迹象，这个事实证实了现代人对药物的依赖。

3. There, a child grows up under the ever-present attention of his parents;
    荒凉地区的孩子无时无刻不在父母关怀下成长。

4. This kind of variability not only loosens the parents' ability to set limits, it also sours the parent-child relationship to some degree, robbing parents and their children of some of the happiness and mutual respect that is present in healthy famili
    这样的反复无定不但削弱了父母管教孩子的能力，同时也在某种程度上使父母与子女之间的关系变味 -- 使家长和子女失去存在于健康家庭里的某些幸福和相互尊重。

5. This present rise in home schooling is blamed on the nature of examinations, not getting children into the school of choice, and dissatisfaction with teaching methods.
    目前家庭学校数量的增加归咎于考试的性质，不能让孩子进入选中的学校学习以及对教学方法的不满意。

6. That means as many as 400,000 new cases of AIDS could occur in the next few years — more than doubling the present total.
    这就意味着在之后几年里会有多达40万个新的艾滋病病例--这是目前艾滋病病例的两倍多。

7. The future does not determine itself. The actions of the present determine the future.
    未来并不是由其自身决定的。今天的行动决定着未来。

8. 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。

9. Those findings, plus the great genetic distance between present-day Africans and non-Africans, indicate that the split from the African branch is the oldest on the human family tree.
    这些发现，再加上现代非洲人与非非洲人之间的巨大基因差距，说明了从非洲人种群开始的分支是人类家谱上最早的分支。

10. No matter how many guests were present, the great house was always immaculate.
    不管去多少宾客，大房子里总是收拾得干干净净。