雅思阅读长难句一：
For example, vision is obviously more useful to species inhabiting clear open waters than to those living in turbid rivers and flooded plains.（C4T1P2）
雅思阅读长难句解析：
整个句子是由more… than… 引导的比较状语从句，然后分别在名词species 和代词those的后面插入了非谓语动词的现在分词“inhabiting clear open waters”和“living in turbid rivers and flooded plains”做后置定语。
长难句翻译：
比如说，对于宽广清澈水域中的鲸鱼来说，视觉显然就比住在混浊的河流或者水淹的平原上的品种来说更加有用。
雅思阅读长难句二：
Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in schools, all to promote national unity. （C4T2P1）
雅思阅读长难句解析：
整个句子首先用quite often 副词插入句子头表示强调，主语是governments, 谓语是try，后面不定式短语to kill off a minority language 做宾语，然后加上介词by引导的的方式状语，最后插入一个to引导的目的状语。
长难句翻译：
为了增加国家的凝聚力，政府通常会通过在公共场合禁用以及在学校中不提倡使用的方法，消灭少数民族语言。
雅思阅读长难句三：
Animals at play often use unique signs-tail-wagging in dogs, for example-to indicate that activity superficially resembling adult behavior is not really in earnest.（C4T2P3）
雅思阅读长难句解析：
这句话的主语是animals，谓语是use，宾语是signs，双破折号当中的部分是插入语，to indicate是宾语补足语，indicate后面跟了一个宾语从句。
Activity是宾语从句的主语，is是系动词，in earnest是表语，resembling 是现在分词做后置定语来修饰activity。
长难句翻译：
玩耍中的动物会用一些独特的标志—比如狗摇尾巴—来表明这种简单模仿大动物的行为的举动并不是玩真的。
雅思阅读长难句四：
We already know that rat pups denied the chance to play grow smaller brain components and fail to develop the ability to apply social rules when they interact with their peers.（C4T2P3）
雅思阅读长难句解析：
整个句子的主语是we，know that后面引导的宾语从句，宾语从句的主语是rat pups，谓语是grow 和 fail，最后插入一个when引导的时间状语从句，其中
denied the chance to play是过去分词做后置定语来修饰rat pups。
长难句翻译：
我们已经知道，没有机会玩耍的小老鼠，大脑各部分发育的比较小，同时也不具备运用社会规则与其他小老鼠交流的能力。
Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere，they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive’s proposals.—2011阅读第一篇
解析：Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere—doing做状语，they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive’s proposals.—主句
翻译：他们已经锦衣玉食，声名显赫，即便是首席执行官的提议，他们也会提出异议且没人会觉得他们唐突。
The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10，000 firms and more than 64，000 different directors between 1989 and 2004. —2011阅读第一篇
解析：The researchers from Ohio University—主语used a database—谓语和宾语that covered more than 10，000 firms and more than 64，000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.—定语从句修饰数据库
翻译：来自俄亥俄大学的研究者构建了一个庞大的数据库，其数据是通过对1989年到2004年间超过10000家公司和64000名不同的董事调查后所得出的。
The most likely reason for departing a board was age，so the researchers concentrated on those “surprise” disappearances by directors under the age of 70. —2011阅读第一篇
解析：The most likely reason for departing a board—主语was age—系表结构，so—并列连接两个句子the researchers—主语concentrated on—谓语those “surprise” disappearances by directors under the age of 70.—宾语
翻译：年龄是他们离职董事会的主要原因。
因此，研究者特别关注那些不满七十岁的董事的“意外”离职。
Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive，it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship. —2011阅读第一篇
解析：Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive，--让步状语从句it does not mean (that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship)--主句中的宾语从句.—主句
翻译：他们离任与该公司随后的糟糕表现不无关系，但这并不意味着他们不愿挽狂澜于既倒、扶大厦于将倾。
But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks，even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred. —
2011阅读第一篇
解析：But the researchers—主语believe—谓语that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations—宾语从句if they leave a firm before bad news breaks—条件状语从句，even if a review of history shows (they were on the board at the time 《any wrongdoing occurred》—定语从句修饰time)--让步状语从句中的宾语从句.—让步状语从句
翻译：研究者们坚信：如果外部董事在坏消息放出之前就离开公司，即便追溯历史时人们发现一些错误正是发生在这些外部董事担任董事期间，他们的名声也丝毫不会受损。
Newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own doom.-- 2011阅读第二篇
解析：Newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own doom.—简单句过去进行时-- chronicling their own doom编写自己的厄运。
翻译：像《洛杉矶编年史》一类的报纸似乎也是在劫难逃。
Even American newspapers，which inhabit the most troubled come of the global industry，have not only survived but often returned to profit. --2011阅读第二篇
解析：Even American newspapers，--主语which inhabit the most troubled come of the global industry，--定语从句修饰美国报纸have not only survived but often returned to profit.—谓语
翻译：尽管在全球各行业中实属处境不佳，美国报纸业不仅幸存了下来，还重新实现了盈利。
The American Society of News Editors reckons that 13，500 newsroom jobs have gone since 2007. --2011阅读第二篇
解析：The American Society of News Editors—主语reckons—谓语that 13，500 newsroom jobs have gone—宾语从句since 2007.—状语
翻译：美国新闻编辑协会估算：自2007 年以来，13500 个和新闻相关的职务已消失得无影无踪。
Newspapers are becoming more balanced businesses，with a healthier mix of revenues from readers and advertisers. --2011阅读第二篇
解析：Newspapers are becoming more balanced businesses，--主句with a healthier mix of revenues from readers and advertisers.—独立主格做状语
翻译：读者买报纸的钱和客户投放广告的钱有了一个更合理的配比。
因此，报业发展得也更为均衡。
The whirlwind that swept through newsrooms harmed everybody，but much of the damage has been concentrated in areas where newspaper are least distinctive.
--2011阅读第二篇
解析：The whirlwind (that swept through newsrooms)--定语从句修饰旋风harmed everybody，--主句一but—并列连接两个句子much of the damage has been concentrated in areas—主句二where newspaper are least distinctive.—定语从句修饰领域
翻译：这会波及新闻编辑室每个部门，但对于那些最没有特色的部门影响尤大。
(注释：之所以没有把每个人翻译出来是因为：人和部门如果做对比的话显得怪怪的。
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1. Libraries made education possible, and education in its turn added to libraries; the growth of knowledge followed a kind of compound-interest law, which was greatly enhanced by the invention of printing.
要点：从内容上分析，which修饰“the growth of knowledge”
图书馆的出现使教育的发展成为可能，而教育的发展又反过来使图书馆不断扩大充实。
知识的增长遵循了一种复利法则。
由于印刷术的发明，这一知识增长过程得以大大加速。
2. If they can each be trusted to take such responsibilities, and to exercise such initiative as falls within their sphere, then administrative overhead will be low.
如果他们每个人都能予以信任承担这样的职责，并在他们所管辖的范围内发挥主动性，那么管理费用就会降低。
3. There are probably no question we can think up that can’t be answered, sooner or later, including even that matter of consciousness.
迟早可能不存在我们想得出但解答不了的问题，甚至包括我们意识的问题。
4. The curtain was rung down in that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.
至少由于氢弹、弹道导弹和登月火箭出人意料地发明，那个历史时期宣告结束了。
5. Studies of the Weddell seal in the laboratory have described the physiological mechanisms that allow the seals to cope with the extreme oxygen deprivation that occurs during its longest dives, which can extend 500 me ters below the ocean’s surface and last for over 70 minutes. (三个定语从句)
关于威德尔海豹特殊的生理机制，在实验室里对其进行的研究已作过详细的描述。
该生理机制使海豹可以适应长时间潜水时出现的极度缺氧。
海豹长时间潜水时最深可达水面以下500米，时间可持续70多分钟。
6. The renaissance of the feminist movement began during the 1950’s led to the Stasist school, which sidestepped the good bad dichotomy and argued that frontier women lived lives similar t the lives of women in the East.
20世纪50年代女权运动的复兴产生了斯塔西学派，这一学派回避好与坏的二分法，认为边境地区妇女和东部妇女过着同样的生活。
7. Tom, the book’s protagonist, took issue with a man who doted on his household pet yet, as a slave merchant, thought “nothing of separating the husband from the wife, the parents from the children”.
书中的主人公汤姆与一个人发生了争执。
这人虽然爱家中的宠物。
但作为一个奴隶贩子，却认为“拆散夫妻，让骨肉分离算不了什么”。
8. We are not conscious of the extent to which work provide the psychological satisfaction that can make the difference between a full and an empty life.
我们不了解工作给人们提供的能把充实的生活与空虚的生活区分开来的心理满足的程度有多大。
9. Thus, the unity that should characterize the strong system is developed by affording opportunity for diversity, which appears to be essential if education is to develop in consideration of the needs of children and youth.
因此，强大的教育体系所具备的统一性这一特点是通过提供各种机会来达到的。
如果发展教育要考虑儿童和青年的需要，多种机会就显得至关重要。
10. Automobiles have been designed which operate on liquid hydrogen, but these system give rise to seemingly unavoidable problems arising from the handling of a cryogenic liquid.
虽然已经设计出液氢驱动的汽车，但是这些系统带来一些由如何处理低温液体而引发的似乎难以回避的问题。
11. Behaviorists suggest that the child who is raised in an environment where there are many stimuli which develop his or her capacity for appropriate responses will experience greater intellectual development.
行为主义者的看法是：如果一个儿童在有许多刺激物的环境中长大，而这些刺激物又能培养其作出适当的反应能力，那么他就会有比较高的智力发展水平。
12. While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians, modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past.
虽然有多少个历史学家，就差不多有多少种历史学的定义，但现代史学家的实践大都趋向于这样一种定义，即历史学是旨在重现和解释过去重大事件的学科。
13. While this boundary does not mark the outer limit of a State’s territory, since in international law the territorial sea forms part of a State’s territory, it does represent the demarcation(分界，定界，界限)between that maritime area(internal waters) where other States enjoy no general rights, and those maritime areas (the territorial sea and other zones) where other States do enjoy certain general rights.
尽管这条分界线并不算是国家领土的外缘边界，但是，因为在国际法中领海也是国家领土的组成部分，它的确是其他国家在其内不享有一般权利的海区(内水域)与其他国家在其中享有某些一般权利的那些海区(领海及其他区域)之间的分界线。
14. He finds that students who were easy to teach because they succeeded in putting everything they had been taught into practice, hesitate when confronted with the vast untouched area of English vocabulary and usage which falls outside the scope of basic textbooks.
他发现原先比较容易教的学生现在踌躇不前了：原先比较容易教是因为他们能把教给他们的所有东西都付诸实践;现在踌躇是因为他们面对着大量的在基础教科书上所没有接触过的英语词汇和惯用法。
15. The reader who peruses (细读(正式)) with some attention the following pages will have occasion to see that both operational and mental aspects of physics have their place, but that neither should be stressed to the exclusion of the other.
读者如果略微仔细地阅读以下几页就会有理由认为，实验操作和思维在物理学中都具有一定的地位，因而不能强调一方而忽略另一方。
16. The public is unhappy about the way society is going, and its view, fueled in part by the agendists and the media, seems to be that judicial (司法的)decisions
unacceptable to them, regardless of the evidence or the law, will slow or change social directions.
公众对社会发展的前景不乐观，在议事人士和新闻媒体的某种鼓动下，公众的观点似乎是：不管证据或法律，司法判决对他们来说是不可接受的，这些判决将会延缓或者改变社会走向。
17. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as
a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish(痛苦) and travail(辛苦), among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing.
我愿意利用这个时刻，利用这个举世瞩目的讲坛，向那些听到我讲话并已献身同一艰苦劳动的男女青年致敬。
他们当中肯定有人迟早也会站到我现在所站的地方。
雅思阅读经典长难句100句
1. The American economic system is, organized around a basically
private-enterprise, market- oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.
[参考译文] 美国的经济是以基本的私有企业和市场导向经济为架构的，在这种经济中，消费者很大程度上通过在市场上为那些他们最想要的货品和服务付费来决定什么应该被制造出来。
2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.
[参考译文] 因此，在美国的经济体系中，个体消费者的需求与商人试图最大化其利润的欲望和个人想最大化其收入效用的欲望相结合，一起决定了什么应该被制造，以及资源如何被用来制造它们。
3. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product.
[参考译文] 另一方面，如果大量制造某种商品导致其成本下降，那么这就有可能增加卖方和制造商能提供的供给，而这也就会反过来降低价格并允许更多的消费者购买产品。
4. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.
[参考译文] 在美国经济中，私有财产的概念不仅包含对生产资源的所有权，也指其他一些特定的权利，如确定一个产品价格和与另一个私人个体(经济单位) 自由签定合同的权利。
5. At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employers are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred customers for promotional campaigns.
[参考译文] 同时这些计算机记录下哪些时间是最忙的，哪些员工工作效率最高，这样就能相应地做出人员人事安排。
而且它们(计算机)也能为促销活动找到那些拥有优先权的顾客。
6. Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more efficient services to consumers through the use of computers.
[参考译文] 不计其数的其他商业企业，从剧院到杂志出版商，从公用燃气电力设施到牛奶处理厂，都通过计算机的使用给消费者带来更好、更有效率的服务。
7. Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age For these children to develop to their full adult potential, their education must be adapted to those differences.
[参考译文] 残疾儿童在许多关键方面都与其同龄人不同。
为了让这些孩子发展其全部的成人后的潜能，他们的教育必须适应这些不同。
8. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all citizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities.
[参考译文] 在过去的30年中，公共教育中显示的对残疾儿童的巨大关注表明了我们社会中的一种中强烈的情绪，那就是所有的公民，不管其情况有多特殊，都应享有充分发展其能力的机会。
9. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices.
[参考译文] 它(广告)能够直接帮助货物以比较合理的价格被迅速分销出去，因此可以(使公司)建立一个坚固的国内市场，同时也使以具有竞争力的价格提供出口变得可能。
10. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements.
[参考译文] 除去议会有27件法案来规范广告的条件，没有任何一个正式的广告商敢于推销一种商品却不能兑现其在广告中的承诺。
11. If its message were confined merely to information and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly persuasive-advertising wound be so boring that no one wound pay any attention.
[参考译文] 如果其信息只被局限于告知一一就广告而言，如果这不是完全不可能达到的，也是非常难做的，因为即便是一个诸如衬衫的颜色的选择这样的细节都会具有微妙的说服意味，那么广告就会如此地乏味以至于没有人会关注它。
12. The workers who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language-all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for there efforts.
[参考译文] 得到了升迁的工人们，成绩进步的学生，学会了一门新语言的外国人一一这些都是那些有可衡量的结果宋显示其努力的人们的例证。
13. As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable.
[参考译文] 随着家庭离开他们原来稳定的社区，离开他们多年的朋友和扩展的家庭关系，非正式的信息流动被切断了，随之而去的是对在需要时能获得可靠和值得信赖的信息的信心。
14. The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated, time--consuming, and sometimes even overwhelming.
[参考译文] 现在每个人能够得到的信息比任何时代的人都多，而找到与他/她的特定问题相关的那一点信息的任务不仅复杂、耗时，有时甚至令人难以招架。
15. Expertise can be shared world wide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference site.
[参考译文] 通过远程会议，专家知识可以在全世界范围内被分享，而争论的问题能够得到解决，同时相关人员也不必离开他们的家庭或工作跑到一个遥远的开会地点。
16. The current passion for making children compete against their classmates or against the clock produces a two-layer system, in which competitive A-types seem in some way better than their B type fellows.
[参考译文] 现在这种让孩子们和其同学或时间竞争的热情导致了一个双层结构，在这个结构里面善于竞争的A类好像在某个方面要比他们B类的同辈更胜一筹。
17. While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and your "wares" and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
[参考译文] 在跟你谈话的时候，可能成为你的雇主的人就一直在衡量你的教育、经验和其他资格是不是值得他雇用你，而你的"商品"和能力一定要以一种有条不紊而且合情合理的相互关联的方式被展示出来。
18. The Corporation will survive as a publicly funded broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role, its size and its programs are now the subject of a nation wide debate in Britain.
[参考译文] 英国广播公司将作为一个公共基金支持的广播组织存在下来，至少目前会这样，但是它的角色、它的规模和它的节目现在在英国成了全国上下的讨论话题。
19. The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC--including ordinary listeners and viewer to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping.
[参考译文] 这场辩论是由政府发动的，政府请任何一个对英国广播公司有意见的人一包括普通的听众和观众一来说说这个公司好在哪里或坏在哪里，甚至要说说他们是否认为这个公司值得被保留下来。
20. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large profess signal element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders.
[参考译文] 这种变化通过引入许多的专业因素从而适应了这个新时代的技术要求，并且它(这种变化)防止了效率的降低。
这种效率的降低在精力充沛的创业者之后的第二代和第三代人(领导公司)的时候，经常会毁掉那些家族公司的财富。
21. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners: and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business.
[参考译文] 这样巨大而非个人的对资金和产业的操纵极大地增加了股东的数量和他们作为一个阶级的重要性，这是国家生活中代表不负责任的财富的一个因素，这种财富不但远离了土地和土地拥有者的责任，而且几乎同样与公司的负责任的管理毫无关系。
22. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large "comfortable" classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders" meeting to dictate their orders to the management.
[参考译文] 像伯恩茅斯和伊斯特本这样的城镇的涌现是为了给那些数量很多的"舒适"阶级提供居住场所。
这些人依赖于其丰厚收入而不工作，他们除了分红和偶尔参加一下股东大会，向管理层口授一下自己的命令之外，跟社会的其他阶层毫无瓜葛。
23. The "shareholders" as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital and labor was not good.
[参考译文] 这样的"股东"对他拥有股份的公司所雇用的工人们的生活、思想和需求一无所知，而且他们对劳资双方的关系都不会产生积极的影响。
24. The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.
[参考译文] 代表公司的花钱雇来的经理与工人及其需求的关系更加直接，但是就连他对工人们也没有那种熟识的私人之间的了解。
而在现在正在消失的古老家族公司的那种更加家长式的制度下的雇主们却常常对他们的工人有这样的私人关系。
25. Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country"s excellent elementary schools: a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the practice of
giving premiums to inventors; and above all the American genius for nonverbal, "spatial" thinking about things technological.
[参考译文] 在许多形成因素当中，我将挑选出这些：这个国家优秀的小学教育：欢迎新技术的劳动者们：奖励发明者的做法;而且最重要的是美国人在对那些技术性事物的非言语的、"空间性的"思考方面的天赋。
26. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, "A technologist thinks about objects that can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process...The designer and the inventor.., are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist".
[参考译文] 正如尤金弗格森所指出的那样："一个技术专家思考那些不能被简化成能被清楚的语言描述的东西。
这些东西在他的思维中是通过一种视觉的、非语言表述的过程宋处理的……设计者和发明者……能够在他们的脑中装配并操作那些还不存在的装置。
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27. Robert Fulton once wrote, "The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheel, etc, like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea".
[参考译文] 罗伯特法欧特曾经这样写到："一个技师会坐在杠杆、螺丝钉、楔子、轮子等等当中，就像一个诗人沉浸在字母表的字母中，把这些字母看成自己思想的展示，在这样的展示中，每种新的次序安排都传达了--种新的思想。
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28. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programs and, tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surprise.
[参考译文] 在最后三章中，他脱下手套，将神造论者好好地揍了一顿。
他描述了他们的活动和战术，而且，对于那些对神造论者的做事方式刁;熟悉的人来说，神造论者的欺骗和扭曲事实的程度可能会令这些人有一种不快的诧异。
29. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: "This book stands for reason itself." And so it does-and all wound be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.
[参考译文] 在这本杰出的书的外纸封面上，史蒂芬杰伊古尔德写道："这本书本身就代表理性。
"而它确实是这样的--而且如果理性成为神造论/地化论之间的辩论中的惟一评判标准的话，一切就都好办了。
30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia"s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.
[参考译文] 经过了六个月的争论以及最后16个小时激烈的议会辩论，澳大利亚北部地区成了世界上第一个允许医生终止希望死去的绝症病人生命的立法当局。
31. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back.
[参考译文] 一些机构终于松了一口气，但是其他一些机构，包括教堂，倡导生命之权的团体和澳大利亚医学协会，尖锐地抨击这个法案，指责法案的通过过于匆忙。
但是大势已定，不可逆转。
32. In Australia- where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their partother states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.
[参考译文] 在澳大利亚--人口老龄化，延长寿命的技术和变化看的社会态度，这些因素都在发挥作用一一其他的州也会考虑制定相似的关于安乐死的法律。
33. There are, of course, exceptions. Small--minded officials, rude waiters, and ill mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment.
[参考译文] 当然，例外是存在的。
在美国，心胸狭窄的官员，粗鲁的传者，和没有礼貌的出租车司机也并不少见。
然而人们常常得出这样的观察意见，这使得它值得被讨论一下。
34. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.
[参考译文] 我们生活在一种药品(毒品)的医学用途和社会用途都很广泛的
社会里：一片用来止头痛的阿斯匹林，一些用来社交的葡萄酒，早上自己提提神所喝的咖啡，一支用来定神的香烟。
35. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.。
