1. Recently I operated in vain on an eighty -year-old woman with cancer of the liver ...
    最近，我给一位80岁的患肝癌的妇女动过手术，但没有成效。

2. Recently I had a patient who suffered a severe stroke.
    最近，我有一个病人严重中风。

3. Recently, I have, in fact, become a grandmother.
    我最近的确当外婆了。

4. I went on an excursion recently, but my trip took me longer than I expected.
    最近我作了一次短途旅行，但这次旅行所花费的时间比我预计的要长。

5. I saw a cartoon recently which depicts a group of businessmen looking puzzled as they sit around a conference table;
    最近我看了一部动画片，片子描述了一批坐在会议圆桌周围、看上去迷惑不解的商人。

6. India's population recently hit 1 billion, but its interior framework in water, transportation and health care is fast falling apart;
    印度的人口最近已达到10亿，但是国内的供水、交通和保健体系却正在迅速地分崩离析；

7. Who recently published an article reviewing the scientific literature on activity's effect on the brain.
    他最近发表了一篇文章，评述有关运动对大脑的影响的科学文献。

8. In a well-known British newspaper, a writer argued recently that "industry is caught in a web of bribery" and that everyone is "on the take".
    在一家知名英国报纸上，最近有位作者指出"企业已陷入贿赂的蛛网"，人人都"贪赃枉法"。

9. I lost some money recently through bad judgment and suddenly had the realization that I would never be able to replace it.
    最近我由于判断失误而损失了一些钱，我突然意识到我可能再也无法重获那笔钱了。