loading那些认为生活痛苦和失败的父母，会对孩子造成巨大的伤害。
3. Families that are paying for college or saving for college are trying to scrape together and save the money for their kids.
正在支付大学费用或者积攒储蓄的家庭为了孩子努力省钱。
4. Reporters were openly and aggressively questioning whether the party was on the verge of being taken over by extremists.
记者公开积极质疑，政党是否即将被极端分子接管。
5. The factory had just started production and in all likelihood it would take five to seven years to achieve full production.
工厂刚刚投入生产，很有可能会花费七年的时间实现全面生产。
6. The conditions for the majority of the workforce will continue to deteriorate into widespread and extreme poverty if relief payment is late in coming. 如果救济金来的晚了，大多数劳动力的条件将继续恶化，造成普遍和极端贫困。
7. Only those who are weighing the advantages and disadvantages of each choice are in a position to know which one is best for them.
只有那些权衡了每个选择利弊的人才能知道哪一个最适合他们。
8. Her romantic illusions of being married gave way to recognizing her adult responsibilities that came with marriage.
她对婚姻的浪漫幻想被婚姻中的成人责任所代替。 Unit 8
1. Our students have almost limitless resources at their disposal: a well-equipped library, student workrooms, a large cafeteria, an undergraduate office and a computer center. 我们的学生享受着近乎无限的资源：装配齐全的图书馆，学生自习室，大的餐厅，大学生办公室以及电
脑中心。
2. South Africa’s government imprisoned Nelson Mandela for 27 years, but never succeeded in its attempt to insulate him from his scared cause against racial separation. 南非政府监禁尼尔森·曼德拉长达27年，却从未使他放弃过抵抗中种族分离这一神圣的事业。 3. Please remember to keep a copy for yourself as we cannot return manuscripts, irrespective of whether or not they are published.
无论是否已经发表，我们都不退还原告，所以别忘了给自己留一份复印件。
4. He won’t be able to make any progress if he always has a high opinion of himself and criticism flows off him like water off a duck’s back.
如果他总是自我感觉良好的话，他不会有任何进步，而且对他的批评声足以将他淹没。
5. Since Mary won the money and brought up the majority of the company’s stock shares, she now has authority over the people she used to take orders from.
自从玛丽赢了钱买下公司大多数股份后，那些曾经对她发号施令的人现在都听从于她。
6. Your new boss is nice and will be kind to you, provided that you, for your part, work diligently without complaining too much.
你的新上司人很好。所以对你来说，如果你勤奋工作不总抱怨的话，他会对你很好。
7. Despite the measures put in place to prevent plagiarism, it is still not clear how students can get away with cheating in their exams.
尽管采取了很多措施来防止抄袭，但学生们仍然能够避开这些措施进行作弊。至于他们是如何做到了，我们不得而知。
8. When the economic slump hit the country, many people who had lost their jobs had to dispense with a lot of luxuries.
当经济衰退席卷整个国家时，那些已经丢了工作的人不得不将许多奢侈品舍弃掉。
9. The majority of people are not lazy; they want to work hard, want to have a better future,
and want to provide for their families.
大多数的人并不懒惰，他们想努力工作，想要拥有一个更好的未来，想要养活他们的家人。
10. In 1940, some people thought Franklin Roosevelt was tiptoeing around the question of war, instead of confronting it, until the Japanese suddenly attacked the United States Navy Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor.
1940年，一些人认为法兰克林·罗斯福没有直面战争问题，而是对其避而不谈，直到日本偷袭位于珍珠港的美国海军太平洋舰队。