Unit 1
1. Watching your baby being born is  a mind-blowing experience (极其令人兴奋的经历).
2. There is built-in storage space (内置储藏空间) in all bedrooms.
3. This handout focuses on  self-protection measures (自我保护措施) under difficult climatic conditions.
4. I’m sure we could offer you some short-term employment  (短期的工作).
5. So, how is it that we all, or at least many of us, have such a  distorted and negative self-perception  (歪曲的、否定的自我观念)?
6. Helen Hunt stars as a character undergoing  life-changing events  (改变了生活的事件) in Then She Found Me.
7. She has written a book that is beautiful because of the honesty and the raw emotion that is portrayed in  all-encompassing details (无所不包的细节).
8. Having a decent job contributes to  a good self-image  (一个好的自我形象).
（1） I’ve been spared a lot, one of the blessed of the earth, at least one of its lucky, that privileged handful of the dramatically prospering, the sort whose secrets are asked, like the hundred-year-old man.
我一直活得无忧无虑，深得上帝垂爱，至少算个幸运儿，少数人才享有的尊荣富贵，我垂手得之。就像百岁人瑞总有人讨教，我的秘诀也总有人探询。
（2） And so Franklin Roosevelt found that he had, in effect, to recruit an entirely new and temporary government to be piled on top of the old one, the new government to get the tanks and airplanes built, the uniforms made, the men and women assembled and trained and shipped abroad, and the battles fought and won.
富兰克林· 罗斯福因此意识到他必须招募新班人马，组建临时机构来补强不能胜任的旧政府。新成立的政府机构专门负责建造坦克飞机，定制军服，招募培训战士。这些战士将被派往前线，去赢得一场场的战争。
Unit 2
1. The best films are those that transcend national or cultural boundaries  (超越国家或文化界限).
2. The scheme has some tangible benefits (一些实际优惠) for the employees, including salary increases and shorter working hours.
3. The effects of television on childhood socialization have been debated endlessly (被无休止地争论).
4. She’s the kind of woman who  delights in pointing out other people’s mistakes (以指出别人的错误为乐).
5. There was in his work a lack of  sympathy with losers (对于失败者的同情).
6. Recent attempts to boost the economy have failed for reasons that can be barely articulated (因为几乎说不清的原因).
7. Financial Services will define a new era for online services (为在线服务开启新的时代) not only in the shipping industry but for other industries as well.
8. Do you really think what I say will matter to him  (对他来说是重要的)?
（1）Such is human nature in the West that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white collar workers.
许多人宁愿牺牲比较高的工资以换取成为白领工人的社会地位，这在西方倒是人之常情
（2）Cosmopolitan Shanghai was born to the world in 1842 when the British man-of-war Nemesis, slipping unnoticed into the mouth of the Yangtze River, reduced the Wusong Fort and took the city without a fight.
sort out your computer翻译1842 年英国战舰尼米西斯号悄悄潜入长江口，击毁吴淞炮台，不费一一卒占据了上海，国际化的上海就此诞生了。
（3）A study of the letter leaves us in no doubt as to the motives behind it.
研究了一下那封信，我们毫不怀疑该信是别有用心的
（4）The happiness—the superior advantages of the young women round about her, gave Rebecca inexpressible pangs of envy.
丽贝卡看见她周围的小那么有福气，享受种种优越的权利，真是说不出的妒忌。
（5）Poor Joe’s panic lasted for two or three days; during which he did not visit the house.
乔继续恐慌了两三天；其间这可怜虫都不肯回家。
Unit 4
1.The regions where a person grows up  may have a subtle effect on (可能会对······产生微妙的影响) his or her idea of typicality of certain items.
2. Many sites on the Internet provide free access to e-books (提供免费阅读电子书籍的机会).
3. Business is in the midst of a sea change (正发生着巨变) when it comes to staffing and retaining superior talent.
4. Since 1970, Green  has been on the faculty of Harvard University (一直在哈佛任教), where he currently holds two named professorships.
5. John is  a voracious book reader  (如饥似渴的读者) and participates in two monthly book clubs.
6. When your goal is in your conscious mind all the time, you’ll stay focused on it (你就会把心思全花在这上了).
7. In all facets of community life, the media play a central role as the conduit for information (信息传递者) and potentially a catalyst for activism and change.
8. The rent was due, so your check came as an absolute godsend (你的支票真是天赐之物)!
9. I must have skipped a page, because I lost the thread of the story (我弄不清故事的脉络了).
10. On a cold winter afternoon ,she like to curl up with a book and stroll through elegant prose  (徜徉在优美的散文中).
（1）In the course of the same year, a serious epidemic broke out.
同年，一场严重的传染病爆发了
（2）A receptor is shaped in such a way that it can receive only a certain messenger.
受体的构造形状使得它只能接受某一类型的信使
（3）.The structure of the steel and the resulting properties will  depend on how hot the steel gets and how quickly or slowly it is cooled.