Five Sentences Each Week—5 Mar 23

1.Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade villagers to see this.

即使政府意识到了供应充足树木的重要性， 但是让它去说服村民明白这个道理还是很难的。
2．In the hopes of reach the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

因为一心想着触摸到月亮，人们忽略了在他们脚边绽放的花儿。

3. Research shows that employees whose obtain satisfaction from their jobs are more productive.

调查显示，那些在工作中拥有满足感的员工工作更有成效。

4. The parents did not expect that their child’s question was too hard to give a reply.

父母不希望他们的孩子提出的问题太难而无法回答。

5．It is an illusion to believe that all wisdom is contained in books.

认为一切智慧都包容在书本里，这是错觉。

Five Sentences Each Week—6 Mar 30

1.      Helen was much kinder to her youngest child than she was to the others, Which ,of course made the others jealous.

海伦对她最小的孩子比对她的其他孩子要好得多，这样自然就引起了其他孩子的嫉妒。

2.Having no money but not wanting anyone to know, he simply said he would go without dinner.

他没有钱，但不想让别人知道，因此他简单的说他想不吃饭就走。

3.How parents talk to their children makes a big difference in children’s language development.

父母与孩子交流的方式对孩子的语言发展具有重要意义。

4.It being pretty late, we decided to leave at once, as we didn’t want to risk missing the bus.

已经相当晚了，因为不想冒错过公交车的险，我们决定马上离开。

5.It’s vital that enough money be collected to get the project started.

去募集足够的钱以启动项目是至关重要的。

Five Sentences Each Week—7 Apri 6

1. Thinking that you know what in fact you don’t is not a good idea.

认为你懂某事，而事实上你并不懂，这不是一个好的思维方式。

（that是you know的宾语，what in fact you don’t中的what指代的是that you know，这句话还原：what=that which，thinking that you know what in fact you don’t=thinking that you know sth.,in fact you don’t know sth.，如果后半句还用know sth.，显得重复，所以用代词引导成一个从句： thinking that you know what in fact you don’t。）

2．Lewis had to travel by bus as his car had been damaged in an accident some days before and he failed to get it repaired.

路易斯只能坐车去旅行了，因为他的车在前不久的一次事故中遭到了破坏，他也未能让别人修好它。

3. Was it in 1969 that the American astronaut succeed in landing on the moon?

是在1969年美国的宇航员登月成功？

4. Still, he could not help thinking that if anything should happen, the nearest person he could contact by radio, unless there was a ship nearby, would be on an island 885 miles away.

然而，他还是忍不住在想，如果有什么事发生，除非附近有船只，否则他用电台能联系上的最近的人应该在885英里以外的岛上。

5. She was having a tough time with the rough and cold water, when her trainer shouted to her from the boat that he thought she should give up and get out of the water.

当她的训练师在小船上冲她嚷，说他认为她应该放弃，赶紧从水里出来的时候，她正在汹涌寒冷的水中饱受煎熬。

Five Sentences Each Week—8 Apr 13

1. We get so used to looking at the movements on it, so dependent on its pictures that it begins to control our lives.

我们太习惯于关注电视上的动作，太依赖于电视上的图片，以至于电视已经开始主宰我们的生活。

2．Our school leavers face so much competition that they seldom care what they do as long as they can earn a living

离开学校的人要面对如此之多的竞争，以至于只要能谋生，他们很少在意他们做什么。

3. They were glad that someone was sensitive to cultural preservation and they were sick of standing by doing nothing while their history was lost.

他们很高兴有人对文化保护敏感，当历史被遗失时，他们很讨厌袖手旁观无所事事。

4. Though we are in accord on what our goals should be, we differ on the means for achieving them.

虽然在目标是什么上我们是相同的，但在实现目标的方式上我们是不同的。

5. Those people who have accurate reliable up-to-date information to solve the day-to-day problems, the critical problems of their business, social and family life, will survive and succeed.

那些拥有解决日常问题和工作、社会生活及家庭生活关键问题的准确可靠的最新信息的人将会生存下来并取得胜利。