1. The audience was bored by the president´s interminable speech.
    主席那冗长的讲话令听众们厌烦。

2. The president will announce a momentous decision.
    主席将宣布重要决定。

3. The president made a Fourth-of-July oration.
    总统作了美国独立纪念日演说。

4. The President threatened to use his veto against the bill.
    总统威胁要对这个议案行使否决权。

5. The article began: ´Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president´s palace.´
    文章的开头是这样的："几百级台阶通向环绕总统的高墙。"

6. The plan had been for the President to stay at the Residence of the American Minister.
    计划原定让总统在美国公使府第下榻。

7. The President had made no complaint, and none of us had detected any sign of discomfort.
    总统没有作出任何身体不适的抱怨，我们也没人察觉到他有任何不适的迹象。

8. The U.S. has no such law, but President Clinton has set up a panel of scientists and philosophers to study the issue.
    美国虽然还没有这样的法律，但克林顿总统已经建立了一个由科学家和哲学家共同组成的小组来研究这个问题。

9. The world is on "the eve of a new era", says the former United States Vice President Al Gore, the Clinton administration's leading high-technology advocate.
    美国前副总统阿尔·戈尔说，我们这个世界正处于"新时代的前夜"，他是克林顿政府中推行高科技的主要人物。

10. Queen Elizabeth and French President Francois Mitterrand will ride a train downward into the $15 billion Channel Tunnel today, crossing the English Channel by land for the first time since it was a marsh 8,000 years ago.
    今天，伊丽莎白女王和法国总统弗朗索瓦·密特朗将乘火车进入造价达150亿美元的海峡隧道，首次由陆地穿越8,000年前曾是一片沼泽地的英吉利海峡。