1. Inviting the fire brigade to put out a nonexistent fire is a crude form of deception which no self-respecting student would ever indulge in.
    请消防队来扑灭一场根本没有的大火是一种低级骗局，有自尊心的大学生决不会去做。

2. It seemed impossible for people of the city to do their daily jobs, to work and eat and sleep and carry on the business of life, with the crash of bombs all around them and planes spitting fire in the skies above.
    炸弹在四周爆炸,飞机从空中向下扫射，市民们似乎不可能照常工作、上班、吃饭、睡觉、从事日常的事务。

3. In the evening he built a fire and slept like a dead man.
    到了晚上，他生了堆火，睡得很死。

4. I believe we're doing a service people need, like being a police officer or a fire fighter. I'm not ashamed of it, but I don't go around boasting about it either."
    我相信，我们做的事是人们所需要的，就像当警察，或者当消防队员。我并不为此而感到见不得人，可我也不会到处去吹嘘自己的工作。”

5. In spite of rapid population increase and industrial growth, some groups of people, often in remote areas, have been able to live in harmony with the planet.
    尽管人口在迅速增长，工业发展很快，还是有一些人类群体——常常是居住在偏远地区的人们——能与地球和睦共处。

6. Fire devastated the town.
    大火使这个城镇成了废墟。

7. Firemen had been fighting the forest fire for nearly three weeks before they could get it under control.
    消防队员们同那场森林大火搏斗了将近3个星期才最后把火势控制住。

8. For these people, being tense may cause tremendous and rapid increases in their blood pressure.
    对这些人来说，压力会导致他们血压大幅度迅速上升。