1. Let me try to describe three or four characteristics of the Japanese environment that in some way affect decision-making or direction-taking and problem-solving.
    让我来描述一下日本民族的三四个文化背景特征，它们以某种方式影响着决策或者取向，以及解决问题的方式。

2. Love means making a commitment to the person I love.
    爱就意味着对所爱之人做出承诺。

3. I´ll confine myself to making a few remarks.
    我只想简单地说几句话。

4. I´m making a shopping-list.
    我在写一份采购单子.

5. I thought he was making fun of me and ran faster than ever reaching the schoolyard quite out of breath.
    我以为他在取笑我, 就越发跑得快起来, 到达学校时我都上气不接下气了.

6. I never heard of anyone making a ´skeleton´, as we were taught at school.
    我从未听说过任何一位作家像我们在学校那样，

7. It seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been supposed.
    看来人类早就致力于探索四季变迁了，比人们想像的要早20,000年。

8. I bound the base of the tree with sticky tape, making it impossible for the ants to reach the aphids.
    我用一条胶带把桃树底部包上，不让蚂蚁接近蚜虫。

9. In the new country he became absorbed in making a new life for the two of us, so that he gradually ceased to grieve.
    在这个新的国家里，父亲专心致志地为我们俩开创一种新的生活，慢慢地不伤心了。

10. I´m making a bookcase.
    我正在做书架。