1. Our engine roared to life, the powerful jet turbines making enough noise to waken the dead.
    引擎轰鸣着发动起来，强大的涡轮机发出的声音可以把死人吵醒。

2. One reason why prodigies such as Picasso and Einstein had a head start in life was that they had parents who demonstrated how to think about subjects like art or physics at a very early age.
    像毕加索、爱因斯坦这样的神童之所以能在生活中率先起跑的一个原因就是他们的父母在他们很小的时候就教给他们如何思考如艺术或物理这样的科目。

3. Our ability to believe what we want to has, in the past, made life easy for the beauty industry.
    人们对自己想要的东西的信任在过去使得美容业容易生存。

4. Life begins at forty.
    四十岁是有为之年。

5. Life is a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance.
    生命只是惨淡的星光里的平凡的一闪.

6. That given a planet only approximately like our own, life is almost certain to start.
    如果设想有一颗行星和我们地球的情况基本相似，那几乎肯定会产生生命。

7. Life there is simple and good.
    在那里，生活简单又美好。

8. Life on a desert island is wretched.
    认为荒岛生活很可怕，

9. That people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
    ´人们情愿拿出大笔的钱,也不愿毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手.

10. Later in her life, she said, "Somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me.
    后来海伦提及此事说：“语言之谜就这样被解开了。