1. Only the angler still thinks fresh- water fish important.
    只有嗜好钓鱼的人仍然垂青于淡水鱼；

2. On another occasion, he invited a number of important critics to see his private collection of modern paintings.
    还有一次，他邀请一些著名评论家来参观他私人收藏的现代画。

3. On the next afternoon, the people of Yap Yap, both rich and poor, were called into the palace courtyard to decide an important matter.
    第二天下午，汪汪国的国民不分贫富，都被召集到大殿上，来决定一件大事。

4. One important regulation of the foreign study program has to do with the time, established by the host "parents", by which the teenagers must arrive home on weekend nights.
    留学计划中有一条与时间有关的重要规定，这是由接待家庭的 "父母" 制定的。根据这条规定, 这些十几岁的孩子们在周末晚上必须回家。

5. Older family members, who understood that the goal of marriage was to produce healthy sons, made the all-important decision of marriage.
    家里的长辈们认为结婚的目的就是要生下健康的儿子，因此有关婚姻的重要决定都是由他们作出的。

6. Of course, all ideas don't occur like that but so many do, particularly the most important ones.
    当然，并非所有的思想都是这样产生的，但许多思想的产生确实如此，尤其是那些最为重要的思想。

7. Oh, we all have friends we can tell important things to, people we can call to say we lost our job or fell on a slippery floor and broke our arm.
    噢，我们都有朋友，可以把大事要事向他们倾诉。我们可以打电话对他们说我们丢了工作，或者说我们在湿滑的地板上摔倒了，跌断了胳膊。

8. They aroused great interest at the time, they had important theoretical consequences, and they provided a striking demonstration of the potentialities hidden in instruments and apparatus.
    这些观察当时引起人们极大的兴趣，具有重要的理论意义，并充分显示出了仪表和仪器的潜在力量。

9. Later we learnt that there was a very important person on board.
    后来我们才得知，飞机上坐了一位非常重要的人物。

10. Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life."
    而培养一种有意义的人生哲学, 则比过去任何时候更显得不那么重要了。" 这一情况并不让人感到惊奇。