1. — Children in single-parent households — usually families with only a mother present — are much more likely to be overtaken by poverty than those who live with two parents, largely because of the loss of support from the fathers.
    ——单亲家庭——通常是只有母亲的家庭——的孩子，较之与双亲一起生活的孩子，更可能遭受贫穷，这主要是因为缺少父亲的经济支持。

2. Children belonged to all members of the community, and all the adults worked hard to support themselves and shared everything they had.
    孩子们属于这个社区中的全体成员，所有成人都努力工作以维持生活，并分享他们所拥有的全部东西。

3. Collecting child support (money paid by divorced fathers to support their children) is also difficult.
    收取孩子的抚养费（离了婚的父亲支付的用于抚养孩子的费用）也是件难事。

4. Those who dislike noise will sometimes use most inadequate evidence to support their pleas for a quieter society.
    那些讨厌噪音的人有时会用不充分的证据来支持他们希望有一个较为安静的社会环境的要求。

5. Love is not enough, compared with the presence and support of both a mother and a father.
    与双亲家庭和睦相处、相互支持相比，仅有爱是不够的。

6. In our own solar system, for example, Venus is far too hot and Mars is far too cold to support life.
    举例来说，在我们的太阳系里，对于生命来说，金星的温度太高，而火星的温度则太低。

7. If more people saw the issue as one of saving themselves, we would probably see increased support and commitment to actually doing something.
    如果更多的人把这看作一项拯救自己的事业，那我们会看到更多人以实际行动支持和投身于这项事业。

8. In the Philippines, women were found to contribute about a third of households’ cash income, but 55 percent of household support if the economic value of their activities at home, such as growing food or gathering hay to feed the family donkey, is in
    在菲律宾，人们发现三分之一家庭的现金收入来自妇女，若是将她们家务劳动的经济价值计算在内，比如种粮食和捡干草喂家里的驴，那她们提供的家庭经济支持将占55%。

9. For example, one U.S. corporation offered a large sum of money in support of a U.S. presidential candidate at a time when the company was under investigation for possible violations of U. S. business laws.
    比如，有一家美国企业曾因可能触犯美国商业法规而正受调查，此时它捐出一大笔款项支持一位总统候选人。