1. Don’t take it personally. This is because people value time highly, and they resent someone else “wasting” it beyond a certain appropriate point.
    不要觉得这是针对你个人的，这是因为人们非常珍惜时间，而且也不喜欢他人不得当地“浪费”时间。

2. A.You think of turning down the chance because the job is too demanding.
    a.你想拒绝这个机会，因为这个工作要求太高。

3. David Ogilvy, founder of the advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather, clarified this point to his newly appointed office heads by sending each of them a Russian nesting doll with five progressively smaller figures inside.
    戴维·奥格尔维是奥美广告公司的创始人，他送给新任命的各部门主管每人一个俄国套娃，每个套娃从大到小依次有五个洋娃娃，以此来说明这个道理。

4. At the most critical juncture we took turns in watching that point.
    在最为紧急的时刻，我们轮流监视着那个地方。

5. At one point, it seemed certain that their plane would crash.
    在某地，好象他们的飞机肯定要被撞得粉碎似的.

6. At one point, it seemed certain that their plane would crash.
    在有个地方，飞机似乎肯定要坠毁了。

7. At this point Kebba Kanga Fofana said: "About the time the King´s soldiers came, the eldest of these sons, Kunta-Kinte, went from his village to chop wood, and he was never seen again."
    这时，凯巴·坎吉·福法纳说：“大约在国王的士兵来到的时候，最大的儿子孔塔-肯泰从他的村庄出去砍柴，从此人们再也没有见到过他。”

8. "You're not stage 3 until your iron reserves go to zero, and if you wait until that point, you're in trouble."
    "只有当你的铁离子储量为零时，你才会进入第三阶段。而你若坐等到这个时候，你的麻烦就大了。"

9. At one point along the journey, he might chat with a stranger. At another, someone would pat his dog, calling him by name.
    在上班途中，有时他会与陌生人聊天，有时又有人会拍拍他的狗，直呼其名与他打招呼。

10. "The point is that it works," said the hospital's executive director.
    "关键是这种做法行之有效，" 医院院长说。