1. There was a time when Asia led the world in civilization.
    过去，亚洲的文明进程曾一度居世界领先地位。

2. Then he began to talk to us about the French language, saying that it was the most beautiful tongue in the world, and that we must keep it among us and never forget it.
    然后他开始对我们讲起了法兰西语言。他说法语是世界上最美的语言，我们一定要经常讲，永远不要忘掉。

3. The Red Cross did much work for prisoners-of-war during the two world wars.
    在两次世界大战中，红十字会都为战俘提供了很多救助。

4. The discovery started scientists in many parts of the world on the search for new and better sulfas, and a number of them were found and perfected.
    这一发现促使世界许多地方的科学家去寻求更新、更有效的磺胺药，他们也确实发现了若干种磺胺药，并做了改进。

5. The world´s largest city now — Mexico City — currently has 18 million people and a huge array of problems.
    现在世界上最大的城市是墨西哥城，目前人口已有1800万。问题成堆。

6. Today, many wealthy people who could live anywhere in the world cannot tear themselves away from those cities, even though they continue to have many problems.
    今天，虽然那里依然存在许多问题，但很多可以住在世界上任何其它地方的有钱的人们仍选择这两个城市居住。

7. The operation caught the imagination of the world, and there was a story that a television company offered a million dollars for one single photograph of Washkansky´s old heart.
    这一手术轰动了整个世界，据说一家电视公司曾出一百万美元的高价来购买沃什坎斯基原来心脏的一张照片。

8. Today the American is one of the few foremost heart-transplant surgeons in the world, having overcome many of the earlier problems, like rejection.
    现在，他攻克了许多像异体排斥这类的早期的难题，是世界上少数几个做心脏移植手术的先驱者之一。

9. The conversation soon turned to the plan for a general world organization, an idea which Roosevelt had cherished for quite some time.
    话题很快转到建立一个综合性的世界组织的计划上，这是罗斯福心爱的设想，脑子里已经琢磨很久了。

10. Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world after all.
    汤姆自言自语说世界并不是如此空虚。