1. She ignored her teachers' advice to become an English teacher and didn't bother with going on to a university because "I was ready to plunge into my life as an artist."
    她没有听从老师的建议做一名英语老师，也不想费心思读大学，因为"我已准备好投身于艺术家的生活。"

2. Since then, I've heard that the psychic-talk business is doing poorly and that phone psychics have been considering another form of telephone work: phone sex.
    从那以后，我听说通灵谈话节目每况愈下，而电话通灵大师们一直在考虑另一种热线服务：色情电话。

3. Similarly, I can give you fluids through a needle in your arm, which will keep you fed as your appetite slips away; the fluids might add a week or two to your life.
    同样，我也可以在你手臂上插上针管，通过它给你输液，这可以让你保持进食，因为你的食欲会渐渐消退；输液可能让你的生命延长一至二周。

4. Sometimes I kiss and hold Laurie so much she starts crying — which is, in effect, what my grandmother was doing to my mother, all her life.
    有时候，我又亲又抱劳里，把她都要弄哭了。实际上，外婆一生都是这样对待妈妈的。

5. Steel seems to be the best material, but not if it is welded to form a rigid structure.
    钢似乎是最佳的建材，但一旦被焊接成僵硬的结构就不行了。

6. She faced ridiculous questions about her personal life.
    她要回答许多关于她个人生活的荒唐问题。

7. Sometimes I think my life is too comfortable. Why should I mother an invention if all my needs are met?
    有时候我觉得生活已经太舒服了，所有的需求都满足了，干吗还要去做一项发明？

8. Students are put together on the basis of their responses to housing form questions about smoking tolerance, preferred hours of study and sleep, and self-described tendencies toward tidiness or disorder.
    这是根据学生对住宿表格上一系列问题的回答而将他们组合在一起。这些问题包括是否容忍抽烟，选择什么样的作息时间，以及对个人习惯是整洁还是凌乱做自我描述。

9. Slowly other experiences began to accumulate, reminding me of a real change in my life status.
    渐渐地愈来愈多的其他经历都在提示我：我的生命状态已真的出现变化了。

10. Plastic material is extruded through very small holes to form fibres.
    塑料从微孔挤压出来形成纤维。