1.他想当足球明星的梦想随着时间的推移慢慢消退了。
His dream of becoming a football star faded out as time went by.2.一架波音747飞机没有升到足够的高度以飞越那座高山，转瞬间一头撞向大山爆炸了。
机上无人生还。
A Boeing 747 aircraft didn’t gain enough height to clear the mountain. In a twinkling, it crashed into the mountain and blew up. No one survived the accident.3.学生们可以很容易地获得图书馆的资源，所以他们应该充分地利用好图书馆。
Students have easy access to the resources in the library, so they are supposed to make the best of it.4.当时世界上最豪华的游轮泰坦尼克号在她前往美国的途中撞到了冰山，结果轮船沉没在大西洋中，成百上千的人死于这场海难。
Titanic, the most luxurious ship in the world at that time, hit an iceberg when she was under way to the US. Consequently, the ship sank into the Atlantic Ocean and thousands of people died in this shipwreck.5.每年夏天，游客们都涌向这一著名的海滩。
来此享受日光浴的游客像沙丁鱼一样挤满了海滩。
Every summer, all the tourists pour into this famous beach. They lie packed like sardines on the beach to enjoy the sunbathing.1.有些网络专家认为因特网可以防止战争、减少污染，还能克服种种形式的不平等。
Some cyber gurus claim that the Internet will prevent wars, reduce pollution, and combat various forms of inequality.2.不可否认，因特网可以增进交流，但它却无法消除战争，因为战争的爆发并不仅仅是由于不同种族间缺乏充分理解而引起的。
Although the Internet undeniably fosters communications, it will not put an end to war, since wars are by no means caused simply by the failure of different peoples to understand each other adequately.3.只有当网上的活动能够真正取代现实世界中的行为时，因特网才能帮助节约能源，减少污染。
The Internet can help reduce energy consumption and pollution only if doing things online genuinely displaces real-world activities.4.穷人不用因特网并不是因为他们买不起，而是心为他们缺乏必要的技能来有效地利用它，所以提高老百姓的文化水平要比给他们提供上网机会更有意义。
The poor are not shunning the Internet because they cannot afford it. The problem is that they lack the skills to exploit it effectively. Therefore, it makes more sense to aim for universal literacy than universal Internet access.5.因为有了因特网，在不同国家从事类似工作的人们之间收入上的不平等减少了，但是贫穷国家中从事信息产业的人们与他们最贫穷的同胞之间在收入上的差距却拉大了。
Thanks to the Internet, income inequality between people doing similar jobs in different countries has been reduced. However, the inequality between information workers in poor countries and their poorest compatriots has been increased.1.许多研究表明沙漠中的空气太干燥了，几乎没有任何湿气。
Many studies indicate the desert air is so dry that it contains hardly any moisture.2.虽然根据法律每个英国儿童从5岁到16岁必须上学，但1%的儿童到小学毕业时仍不会阅读。
Although the children from age 5 to 16 must go to school in England according to the law, about 1% of the children still can not read when they leave primary school.3.听到这个消息后，我知道在两个星期内，我又会坐立不安。
After hearing the news, I knew that within a fortnight I should/would feel restless again4.我们一致认为要回答这个问题，就必须更仔细地查清这些事实。
We think unanimously to answer this question, we must look more closely at the facts.1.我发现在办公室坐了一天之后，晚上沿着静静的湖边散散步会令人神清气爽。
I find that walking along the quiet lake can provide refreshment from a day's sedentary job.2.锻炼和放松自己通常被认为是治疗疲劳症的有效方法。
Exercising and relaxing yourself is often prescribed as an effective cure for fatigue. 3.你的活动量越小，机体老化的过程就越快，你就越容易面临生理和心理方面的种种问题。
The less active you are, the faster this aging process accelerates, and the more vulnerable you become to physical and psychological problems.4.即使你坚持节食，你也不可能减到你所希望的那种身材的程度。
Even if you keep up dieting, you cannot reduce to the point where you achieve the kind of body-shaping you want.5.人们认为他有一个幸福的晚年，因为在这期间他除了睡觉、吃饭几乎什么事情都不做。
但他却常常感到疲惫和心情压抑。
People thought he had happy late years during which time he did little but slept and ate, yet he was often tired and depressed.6.过去，人们用搓衣板洗衣服，用手捆干草，很少抱怨疲劳；而如今人们拥有各种节省体力的装置和方便的交通设施，但却总是抱怨疲劳不堪。
In the past when laundry scrubbed on a washboard and hay was baled by hand, people seldom complained of tiredness. However, people feel dragged out and complain a lot in the modern time of labor-saving devices and convenient transportation.人们普遍认为孩子在家里抚养与他们在学校所接受的教育密不可分。
It is generally accepted that upbringing of the child within the home is closely related to the education of the child in school詹妮弗是《纽约先驱论坛报》的人事科长，在这家报社里，他还负责公共关系方面的特约社论工作Jennifer is the chief of personnel for the New York Herald Tribune, where she is also responsible for special editorial work in the field of the public relations.杰弗两年前在他妹妹的生日聚会上认识了罗斯，从那以后，他们两人一直通过电子邮件联系，杰弗越是了解罗斯，就越喜欢她Jeff met Rose at his sister’s birthday’s party two years ago. They have been communicating eachother by e-mail since then. The more Jeff knows Rose, the more he likes her.这个措施不仅有效地为下岗工人提供了就业机会，而且还有效地控制了物价上涨。
This new measure is effective not only in providing job opportunities for the laid-off workers, but in limiting price increases..同样,他们对这一阴谋的政治和经济背景认识得不够充分Similarly /likewise, they insufficiently treated /they did not sufficiently treat the political and economic background of the conspiracy.大规模的货币投资，一方面满足了经济高速增长的需要，另一方面也造成了通货膨胀。