1. This is an undeclared war that everyone must sign up for in order for us to win. We simply cannot let people continue to die because we don't feel comfortable talking about AIDS. 这是一场不宣而战的战争,我们每个人都必须参加,我们只有这样才能取得胜利。我们绝对不能因为谈论艾滋病会使我们感到难受,而听任人们继续被艾滋病夺去生命。
2. To truly change the world for the better, we need more facts, not simply more faith. 要真正使世界更美好,我们需要更多的事实,而不仅仅是更多的信念。
3. The sole standard for being first at something was simply not having heard that somebody else had done it. 衡量是否"第一"的惟一标准就是没听说别人做过。
4. The not too surprising result was that the children whose parents were simply supportive were happier than average but were not particularly intense in their concentration when studying or working on something. 结果并不太意外。支持型父母的孩子所感到的快乐程度高于平均水平,但学习或做事时却不是那么高度集中精力。
5. No, say the Americans: our fowl are fine, we simply clean them in a different way. 不,美国人说,我们的家禽很好,只是我们使用了另一种清洗方式。
6. New laws and police priorities are taking up so much time that many forces simply cannot afford to let their officers walk up and down the streets. 新的法令和重点警务工作占去了大量时间,结果使得很多警队就是派不出警员上街巡逻。
7. He simply had no sense of danger at all. 而是他压根儿没有一点儿危险感。
8. He simply told her that he worked for the Corporation. 他只说在埃尔斯米尔公司上班。
9. He simply voiced the quiet truth of the city's existence. 他只是沉着地告诉人们一个事实: 这个城市依然存在。
10. And one odd finding that makes the problem puzzling is that it looks very much as if sleeping is not simply a matter of giving the body a rest. 一项使人对这个问题感到困惑的奇怪的发现是,睡眠在很大程度似乎并不仅仅是为了使身体得到休息。