1. If anyone ever asks her how old she is, she always answers, ´Darling, it must be terrible to be grown up!´
    一旦有人问起她有多大年纪，她总是回答："亲爱的，长成大人真可怕啊！"

2. It was not the sort of bright yellow sun making everything lift up at the edges, almost in fear, that I was used to, but a pale yellow sun, as if the sun had grown weak from trying too hard to shine; but still it was sunny.
    这不是那种我所习惯的、使每一样东西的边缘几乎是颤巍巍地向上翘的那种金黄色的太阳，而是那种淡黄的、好象是一个因过分卖力地想发出灿烂的光芒而变得软弱无力的太阳，但它毕竟也是灿烂的。

3. In just two years, the international plan against AIDS has grown from ideas to practice, from speeches to action.
    仅仅在两年之内，国际防治艾滋病项目便已从设想变为实践，从言词变为行动。

4. I talked to his four grown children and told them I thought we should insert a tube directly into his stomach through a small hole so he could be fed without so much pain.
    我与他的四个成年孩子商量，告诉他们我认为该把一根导管通过一个小洞直接插进他的胃里，这样喂食他就不会那么痛苦。