1. Compared with salesmen who passed the aptitude test but scored high in pessimism, this group made 21 percent more sales in their first year and 57 percent more in their second.
    与另一些通过了能力测试但具有悲观心态的推销员相比，这些人第一年的销售就超出了21%，而第二年更超出了57%。

2. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida.
    13岁之前我一直住在佛罗里达州的一个黑人小镇伊顿维尔。

3. Reading a survey report on first-year college students, I recalled the regret, "If only I knew then what I know now."
    在阅读一份对大学一年级新生作的调查报告时，我又想起了这种惋惜之情: "要是当初我就懂得了我到现在才领悟到的东西, 该有多好！"

4. Recently I operated in vain on an eighty -year-old woman with cancer of the liver ...
    最近，我给一位80岁的患肝癌的妇女动过手术，但没有成效。

5. Our problems have multiplied since last year.
    自去年以来我们的问题增多了.

6. Our club has recruited 30 new members this year.
    今年我们俱乐部吸收了三十名新会员。

7. One case concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova,
    其中有一例谈到有一个名叫维拉.彼托洛娃的11岁学生。

8. Over a year passed before the first attempt was made.
    然而一年多过去了才有人出来尝试。

9. Once a year, a race is held for old cars.
    旧式汽车的比赛每年举行一次。

10. On 3 December 1967 Dr. Christiaan Barnard transplanted the heart of a 24-year-old girl into the chest of a 50-year-old man.
    1967年12月3日，克里斯蒂安·巴纳德医生把一位二十四岁姑娘的心脏移植到了一位五十岁男人的胸内。