1. Sales of U.S.-grown roses have declined from 565 million in 1988 to an estimated 520 million in 1993, says an industry group.
    某从业集团指出，美国种植的玫瑰，销售量从1988年的5.65亿支跌至1993年的大约5.2亿支。

2. Modern industry is based on the conception of the maximum production at lowest cost, in order that an individual or a group of individuals may earn as much money as possible.
    现代工业的基本概念是：以最低成本获取最多产品，为的是让某个个人或某一部分人尽可能多地赚钱。

3. Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania advised the Metlife insurance company to hire a special group of job applicants who tested high on optimism, although they had failed the normal aptitude (才能) test.
    宾夕法尼亚大学的马丁·塞利格曼建议梅特莱夫保险公司雇用一批特别的求职者，他们经测试证实有很乐观的心态，虽然在一般能力测验上不及格。

4. Convinced of the importance of education, modern states ´invest´ in institutions of learning to get back ´interest´ in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders.
    现代国家深深懂得教育的重要性，对教育机构投资，收回的1利息´便是培养出大批有知识的男女青年，这些人可能成为未来的栋梁。

5. Chaplin quit Britain for good in 1913 when he journeyed to America with a group of performers to do his comedy act on the stage
    卓别林在1913年永久地离开了英国，与一些演员一起启程到美国进行舞台喜剧表演。

6. But being put in a particular category about that bothered me, as though all of my reactions could be known in advance and belonged to the general group "grandmother" rather than to me.
    但是就此而被归于某一特定的类别却使我不快，好像我所有的反应人们都能预见，也都为一般的"祖母"类的人所有而不是属于我自己似的。

7. Compared with salesmen who passed the aptitude test but scored high in pessimism, this group made 21 percent more sales in their first year and 57 percent more in their second.
    与另一些通过了能力测试但具有悲观心态的推销员相比，这些人第一年的销售就超出了21%，而第二年更超出了57%。

8. Reacting to the announcement, stock market experts Paribas Capital Markets Group issued a "sell" recommendation on Euro Disney stock, saying that attendance levels for the period were 15 percent below its expectations and spending on food a
    对此番话，股票市场行家，帕里巴斯资本市场集团发布了一份"出售" 欧洲迪斯尼股票的建议，指出这一阶段的游客量比预期的低15%，食品及其他商品的消费额比预期的低10%。

9. Our group was awarded a red banner.
    我们小组被授予红旗。

10. Over there, under a huge pine tree, a group of boys and girls are playing games.
    那边一棵大松树下一群孩子正在做游戏。