1. Older family members, who understood that the goal of marriage was to produce healthy sons, made the all-important decision of marriage.
    家里的长辈们认为结婚的目的就是要生下健康的儿子，因此有关婚姻的重要决定都是由他们作出的。

2. One made piles of clothes for the children; the other knitted hats, sweaters and gloves.
    她们一个为孩子做了很多衣服，另一个用手编织了帽子、毛衣和手套。

3. On the other hand, once a given agreement is made, it is the Japanese who sometimes wonder at the slow pace in which Westerners implement the decision.
    另一方面，一旦签署了某个协议，却常常是日本人惊讶于西方人履行协议时的拖沓。

4. On the contrary, officials of another government bureau report, "no reasonable explanation to date has been made for the vanishings."
    与此相反，另一家政府部门的官员报告："迄今为止，还没人对失踪事件做出合理的解释。

5. 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。

6. Libraries made education possible, and education in its turn added to libraries:
    藏书使教育成为可能，而教育反过来又丰富了藏书，

7. Latham made another attempt a week later and got within half a mile of Dover, but he was unlucky again.
    莱瑟姆一周以后也作了一次尝试，飞到离多佛不到半英里的地方。这次他又遭厄运，

8. The only sound that could be heard was made by water which dripped continuously from the high dome above them.
    唯一的可以听见的声响是高高的圆顶上不间断地滴水的嘀嗒声。

9. Later, when night fell, Kaz and her brother made for the mountains; a friend from Kaz's factory lived in a village on the slope of a hill behind the city and had offered to take them in.
    接着，夜幕降临了，和子和她弟弟往山里走；和子厂里的一个朋友住在市区后面一个小山坡上的村子里, 表示愿意收留他们。

10. It is not uncommon to hear that a shipping company has made a claim for the cost of salvaging a sunken ship.
    航运公司为打捞沉船的费用提出要求，这并非奇闻。