1. An all-night party on New Year´s Eve provided me with a good excuse for not carrying on either of these new resolutions on the first day of the year,
    新年除夕举办的一次通宵晚会，使我理直气壮地在新年头一天免去了这两项任务。

2. An interesting example of this kind of payment is provided by the story of a sales manager who had been trying for some months to sell road machinery to the Minister of Works of a Caribbean country.
    有个故事是说明这类支出的有趣例子：有个销售经理几个月来一直试图向加勒比地区一个国家的建工部长推销道路工程机械。

3. You must be provided with warm clothes for the winter.
    你必须准备好暖和的衣服过冬。

4. She´s all sweetness and light provided you´re doing what she wants.
    只要顺着她, 她是又和蔼又讲理.

5. Provided there is intelligence and a willingness to exert yourself, there is a place within the company to try and to succeed.
    只要有智慧，只要肯努力，就可以在公司里获得奋斗和成功之地。

6. Provided the spray is washed away with water, recovery should be complete within a couple of hours.
    只要用水冲洗，几个小时内应可彻底恢复。

7. Neither the people who own stock in the company, nor the officers of the 220 banks that provided history's biggest loan, nor the 3,000 journalists trying to imagine three parallel tunnels beneath 100 feet of water and 130 feet of clay.
    不论是公司的股票持有人，还是提供了历史上最大贷款的220家银行的官员们，或者是3,000名记者，都无一例外。记者们只可尽力想像水下100英尺、泥土下130英尺的三条并行的隧道的状况。

8. Other countries — France, Italy, Spain, even Japan and Korea — have provided more applause (and profit) where Chaplin is concerned than the land of his birth.
    就卓别林而言，其他国家，如法国、意大利、西班牙，甚至日本和朝鲜，比他的出生地给予了他更多的掌声（和更多的收益）。

9. They aroused great interest at the time, they had important theoretical consequences, and they provided a striking demonstration of the potentialities hidden in instruments and apparatus.
    这些观察当时引起人们极大的兴趣，具有重要的理论意义，并充分显示出了仪表和仪器的潜在力量。