1. The immigrant students have a desire to work hard and succeed that kids born in the United States no longer seem to have.
移民子女具有壹種努力學習爭取成功的強烈願望，而這正是美國子女已經不再具備的品質。
2. Arguing hurts productivity, keeps the manager from other things, and often employees spend time listening to it.
吵架會影響生產，耽誤經理處理其他事情，而且往往其他職員會浪費時間來聽熱鬧。
3. In Europe, there are lines of people waiting to go up sections of mountains, guider walking around, and garbage all over the place.
在歐洲，會有很多人排隊等候爬上某段山坡，到處都有向導來回走動，垃圾隨時可見。
4. Warn both parties in a rivalry that if don’t begin to cooperate professionally, a lot is at stake, ranging from a transfer to unemployment.
警告沖突雙方，如果他們不在業務上有合作就會產生壹系列後果，從調換工作壹直到開除。
5. A characteristic of high performers is their intense, pleasurable concentration of work, rather than on their competitors or future glory or money.
那些卓有建樹的人們的壹個***同特點就是心甘情願地聚精會神於自己的工作，而非其他競爭者或者將來的榮譽或金錢。
6. Two years later, at the beginning of her senior high school, she was not only speaking fluent English but had also become one of the best students in her class.
兩年後高中三年級開始時，她不但已經能夠講壹口流利的英語，而且還成為全班最好的學生之壹。
7. When men don’t have a chance for adventure, the only other possibility for them is to undertake dangerous activities.
當男人們沒有冒險機會的時候，唯壹的可能就是從事壹些危險的活動。
8. The states view lottery as a way to make money, since only half of what they take in is given back as prize money.
各州都把彩票作為賺錢的辦法，因為收回的錢中只有壹半支付給獲獎者。
9. When a close relationship ends, or when we are afraid that it might end, production of endorphins stops and we’re thrown into a panic.
當親密的關系終結成或者當我們擔心可能終結的時候，就不在產生太啡肽，我們就會被置於恐慌的心境之中。
10. The nature of the male animal is to undertake dangerous task to confront them and to succeed.
雄性動物的天性就是從事危險的活動，迎接挑戰並獲得成功。
11. Oddly, all the while that she fought for her dogs’ lives, her thoughts were also in sympathy with the moose.
奇怪的是，她壹邊為保護她的狗的生命而奮戰著，壹邊為那只駝鹿而深感同情。
12. As late as 1897, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered unmanly.
壹直到1897年英國海軍的船員還不容許用刀和叉子吃飯，因為用刀子吃飯被認為是沒有男人氣概。
13. The emotions we feel when we’re in love are so powerful when they’re going on, nobody’s going to stop think about chemicals in the brain.
人們墜入愛河時的情感非常之強烈，當時絕對沒有人會停下來考慮大腦裏的化學萬分的。
14. Joan’s family will probably be able to move back into their apartment because of the building steel construction that allowed it to move and sway, but no cave in.
Joan壹家很可能還可以搬回原來的房子去住，因為他們那座樓房是鋼筋結構的，這使得樓雖然來回晃動，卻沒有倒塌。
15. Here’s his answer to fifteen-year-old boy, whose mother felt he was too young to have a serious relationship with a girl who lived far away.
這是他給壹個十五歲男孩的答復，男孩的媽媽認為他和壹位住在很遠的女孩有認真的戀愛關系為時太早。
16. Not only has finger-feeding withstood the passage of time, but some scholars believe that it may enjoy a comeback.
用手抓著吃飯不僅經受了時間的考驗，有些學者還認為這種習慣還會卷土重來。
17. Dangerous animals were tamed and then permitted to walk freely through the houses of the rich.
在富人們的家庭裏，經常有經馴服的兇猛的野獸自由在地來回走動。
18. Most people have found themselves daydreaming about winning a million dollars as a solution to their money problem or as a path to happiness and a life of luxury.
很多人都知道自己曾經做過中壹百萬元彩票的美夢—想以此解決經濟問題或者過上幸福富裕的生活。
19. Butcher had already set new time record for the first leg of the rip, and her chances of winning had never been better.
在第壹段賽程上Butcher已經創下了壹個新的時間記錄，她幾乎是穩操勝券了。
20. There was, however, a need for food to be carried from the bowl to the mouth, and chopsticks came along to meet that need.
不過，由於需要將食物由碗裏送到嘴裏，這樣筷子就應運而來了。