1.It was my ambition to have her read to me while I churned; once she granted my wish, but she read off my story before I brought her butter.我的奢望是她念我来搅拌；有一次她满足了我的愿望，可是我要听的故事她念完了，她要的黄油我却还没弄好。
2.Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them不过，姑且不论书本从何而来，我不记得自己有什么时候不爱书3.Neither of my parents had come from homes that could afford to buy many books, but though it must have been something of a strain on his salary, as the youngest officer in a young insurance company, my father was all the while carefully selecting and ordering away for what he and Mother thought we children should grow up with.我的父母都不是来自那种买得起许多书的家庭。
然而，虽然买书准得花去他不少薪金，作为一家成立不久的保险公司最年轻的职员，父亲一直在精心挑选、不断订购他和母亲认为儿童成长应读的书。
4.Besides the bookcase in the living room, which was always called "the library", there were the encyclopedia tables and dictionary stand under windows in our dining room.除了客厅里有一向被称作“图书室”的书橱，餐厅的窗子下还有几张摆放百科全书的桌子和一个字典架。
5.To both my parents I owe my early acquaintance with a beloved Mark Twain.多亏了我的父母，我很早就接触了受人喜爱的马克?吐温。
6.It ends with not one but two morals, both engraved on rings: "Do what you ought, come what may," and "If we would be great, we must first learn to be good."书末讲的道德寓意不是一条，而是两条，都印在环形图案里：“不管发生什么，该做的就去做”，还有“想做伟人，必须先学会做个好人”。
7.This book was lacking its front cover, the back held on by strips of pasted paper, now turned golden, in several layers, and the pages stained, flecked, and tattered around the edges; its garish illustrations had come unattached but were preserved, laid in.这本书没了封面，封底用几条纸片粘牢，有好几层，如今都泛黄了，书页上污迹斑斑，边角处都破碎了；书中花哨的插图脱了页，但都保存良好，夹在书里。
8.I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me — as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting — into knowledge of the word, into reading and spelling, by way of the alphabet.我感激父母通过认识字母对我——早在我要求之时，而没有让我等待——进行文字启蒙，教我阅读和拼写。
9.Fuelling the shift toward vegetarianism have been the health recommendations of medical research.推动人们转向素食的是医学研究提出的关于如何增进健康的建议。
10.We've been running the human biological engine on the wrong fuel."“我们一向利用不合适的养料来维持人类生理引擎的运转。
”11.Earlier this month, charges were laid against a large Alberta feedlot operator for dumping 30 million litres of cattle manure into the Bow River, "killing everything in its path," as a news story described it.本月初，阿尔伯达一家大型围栏肥育地经营者被指控将3千万升牛粪排入博河，“沿途生灵悉数被毁”，一则新闻这么报道。
12.Our environment also includes the animals killed for their meat. It has become an accepted fact that today's factory-farmedanimals live short, miserable, unnatural lives.我们的环境也包括为食其肉而被宰杀的动物。
当今工厂化农场的牲畜寿命极短，过着悲惨的、不正常的生活，这已是公认的事实。
13.Gone are the days when piglets snorted and roosters strutted their way about the barnyard.猪崽喷着鼻息、公鸡在粮仓的空场上昂首行走的日子已经一去不复返。
14.Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as the Evolution to a vegetarian diet." 没有什么比转向素食更有益于人类健康，更能增加世间万物的生存机会。
15.With nearly every state in the union now sanctioning some form of legalized gambling to raise revenues, evidence is mounting that society is paying a steep price, one that some researchers say must be confronted, if not reversed.由于全国几乎每个州都批准某种合法化的赌博形式以增加税收，越来越多的事实表明，整个社会正在付出巨大的代价，不少研究者指出，对此现象如果不能彻底改变，那就必须严肃面对。
16.A substantial share of those gambling losses — an estimated 30% to 40% — pours from the pockets and purses of chronic losers hooked on the adrenaline rush of risking their money, intoxicated by the fast action of gambling's incandescent world.输掉的赌金中有相当一部分——约占30%－40%——是从那些常输的赌徒的钱包里掏出来的，赌博带来的兴奋令他们入迷，瞬息万变的赌博世界令他们如痴如醉。
17.Science has begun to uncover clues to compulsive gambling —genetic predispositions that involve chemical receptors in the brain, the same pleasure pathways implicated in drug and alcohol addiction. But no amount of knowledge, no amount of enlightenment, makes the illness any less confounding, any less destructive.科学研究开始揭示形成嗜赌成癖恶习的线索——与大脑中的化学感受器有关的，即与嗜毒、嗜酒同一个快感途径有关的遗传特性。
但无论对这一顽症有多少了解有多少认识，人们对它的困惑一点也没有减少，它的破坏性也一点也没有减少。
18.His plunge has been so dizzying that at one point he agreed to aid another desperate gambler in a run of bank robberies — nine in all, throughout Los Angeles and Orange counties他一直狂赌，结果走投无路，竟然答应协助另一个因绝望而不顾一切的赌徒实施银行抢劫——在洛杉矶和桔县共抢了9家银行。