1. A recent article in a weekly newspaper, for instance, was headed with a striking illustration of a lady in a state of considerable distress,
    例如，最近一家周报刊登了一篇文章，文章上方有一幅引人注目的插图，是一位表情沮丧的女子。

2. A disunited nation therefore has to incur unduly high costs of government.
    因此，一个处于分裂的国家必须要支付过高的行政管理费用。

3. A parliamentary committee representing all political parties appoints a person who is suitably qualified to investigate private grievances against the State.
    议会内有一个代表各政党利益的委员会，由它委派一位称职的人选专门调查个人对国家的意见。

4. As Mr. Ross said at the time: "If the patient has no other future short of this transplant, we think we are morally justified, in the present state of our knowledge, in doing it."
    正如罗斯先生当时所说：“如果除了做移植手术之外，病人别无出路，那么我们认为，在现有的医学条件下，施行这种手术在道义上是无可非议的。”

5. And why bother rebuilding the nation when the only goal is to abandon it?
    还有，既然人们的惟一目标是抛弃这个国家，为何还要费心去重建它呢?

6. "In older people, an exercise program appears important for brain maintenance," says Daniel M. Landers, professor of exercise science at Arizona State University,
    亚利桑那州立大学的运动学教授丹尼尔·M. 兰德斯说，"对老年人来说，锻炼计划对维持大脑功能似乎非常重要。"

7. "The DMV is a one-stop shop for state agencies that want to reach out and affect our lives," he writes.
    他写道："对想要影响我们、管得过宽的政府机构来说，DMV正是它们获得所需信息的一站式供应处。

8. "The state of Oregon (俄勒冈州) has 109 different offenses that can result in the temporary loss of a driver's license; 50 of them have nothing at all to do with driving," writes Garfinkel.
    加芬克尔写道："俄勒冈州有109种不同的违规行为可导致暂时吊销驾驶执照，而其中50种与开车毫无关系。"

9. Such administrative overhead in a business is analogous to the cost of government in a nation.
    一家企业的行政管理性费用与一个国家政府的开销是类似的。

10. Such administrative overheads in a business are analogous to the cost of government in a nation.
    一家企业的行政管理开支类似于一个国家的政府管理所用的开支。