1、The limited gain could hardly serve as a relieving justification for the tremendous cost the federal government had paid so far.
2、Because of objections, the engineering project was shelved temporarily.
3、By the time the trial began on July 10, our town of 1,500 people had taken on a circus atmosphere.
4、Indeed, this nation’s best-loved author was every bit as adventurous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined.
5、After five months of winter, we are desperate for some kinder weather and a chance to enjoy life out of doors.
6、Just days after the birth of calves from an adult cow, Japanese scientists said that calves cloned from cells from adults’ ears and buttocks could be on the way.
7、We crept silently and nervously like prowling cats, making our way towards the entrance.
8、Most people are a mix of optimism and pessimism, but are inclined in one direction or the other.
9、Deeply concealed as it is in ordinary times, a latent dependence reveals itself when the time of one’s being left alone lengthens considerably.
10、The treaty provides for freedom of movement, equality before the law, presumption of innocence, freedom of conscience and religion, freedom of opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and participation in public affairs and elections.
11、Each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.
12、They found that the kind of stress most likely to invite a cold is ongoing (lasting a month or more) and involves conflict with colleagues, family or friends.
13、I assimilated many skills and values that summer, but I will mention just one more: I remember objecting to having an election bumper sticker placed on my car.
14、There is a flurry of hotels construction in metropolitan Manila, unmatched since 1976, when seven new hotels opened to coincide with the annual IMF World Bank meetings
held there.
15、I had read too many novels and had learned too much at school not to know a good deal about love.
16、Do you share the view that too many people are talking too much about China? 17、I was truly dumbfounded by this deep fury that possessed her whenever she looked at me.
18、I’ll have to beard the lion in his den when I go to ask my boss for a better job. 19、A divorced woman is likely to find herself in an unenviable position.
20、All told China has roughly 380 million women between the age of 15 and 55, and few of them---particularly in the cities—want to look any less that the best their budgets allows.
21、I was such a fan that after reading that he walked at a rate of 120 steps per minute, I practiced his pace until it became second nature.
22、For any machine whose input force and output force are known, its mechanical advantage can be calculated.
23、A potentially dangerous blunder by police and security authorities here yesterday saw Mrs. Thatcher mobbed by yelling demonstrators during a shopping mall walkabout. 24、Cable television which in many countries now gives a choice of dozens of channels will soon be used to protect our homes by operating burglar and fire alarms linked to police and fire station.
25、Floods occur when soil and vegetation cannot absorb all the water; water then runs off the land in quantities that cannot be carried in stream channels or retained in natural ponds and constructed reservoirs.
26、Eleven European countries, together producing 20 percent of the world’s exports, will launch the euro on January 1, 1999, creating what the European Union’s Statistical Agency (Eurostat) has called “the world’s.
27、Husbands, kids, careers and avocations—all require attention; too often, making time for our friends comes last on the list of priorities.
28、Star performers at work know that real initiative means going beyond your regular
work to come up with new ideas that really help the company’s bottom line.
29、The past of man has been on the whole a pretty beastly business, a business of fighting and bullying and gorging and grabbing and hurting.
30、For all of the political savvy（精明） that has shaped the planning of Desert Shield so far, the top brass are keenly aware that some political dimensions of the military operation remain beyond their control.
31、Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more. Every prize has its price. The prize is the yes; the price is the no. 32、Aluminum remained unknown until the nineteenth century, because nowhere in nature is it found free, owing to it always being combined with elements, most commonly with oxygen, for which it has s strong affinity.
33、This glorious mishmash constitute an informal history of the 20th century America by an inquisitive writer who interviewed everyone from Harry Truman to Irving Berlin to 50 cents whores in the slums of New Orleans.
34、Bright red costumes with hats, shoes and stockings to match, are to be all the craze in the Spring. Start women will have to be careful not to yawn in the streets in case some short-sighted person is on his way to post a letter.
35、In a richly accented voice, evocative of her Viking forbears, she said that from the age of twelve, when she first discovered Pear Buck’s work, she had read all of it that she could find in her tiny island library.
36、The trunks of trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterwards the road bare and white except for the leaves.
37、It would take me an entire book to list all of the people I have known in my life who spent the majority of their lives as single people, but who were the undisputed focus of a large group of friends.
38、Spring has always rightly been identified with youth, and the sorrow of youth are poignant and bitter.
39、It \\was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was
the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.
40、It is a ling way from Peking to London. The distance has sometimes seemed compounded by historical, philosophical and political gaps in our outlooks. It is nevertheless many years since our two worlds first touched. Our political relations have been more varied.
41、For hundreds of years, people in the Middle East have built wind-catchers onto their homes. These structures sit on rooftops and look somewhat like camping shelters. They trap cool breeze high in the air and funnel them into the houses.
42、The great difficulty of introducing radically new computer architectures which requires customers to rewrite most of their way to the commercial market place. 43、Almost single-handedly, she changed the parameters of British politics, ending the free-lunch mentality that prevail since 1945 and replacing it with an unyielding commitment to free markets and individual responsibility.
44、The birthrate in Japan has declined to an all-time low, an average 1.57 children for each female, and Japanese women are establishing a new identity, struggling against entrenched male chauvinism. Now Japanese men have to pay for their traditional practice of enslaving their wives as child-bearers.
45、What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man in for a routine physical checkup just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months?