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1 I can see three different types of composers in musical history, each of whom creates music in a somewhat different fashion.2 A big nation has its problems while a small nation has its advantages.3 He spoke with firmness, but his face was very sad and his eyes were dim.4 He was but a man with many grey hairs, with a heavy burden of responsibility, of thoughts and worries.5 Even if you go there, there wouldn't be any result.6 Gathering facts, confirming then, suggesting theories, testing them, and organizing findings -- this is all the work of science.7 He intends to take an action in grand style.8 He arrived on Sunday night, tired and dusty.9 This type of marriage is characterized by constant conflict, tension, and bitterness.10 The nation's tradition, its instincts, and its interest make it opposed to Germany.11 Education suggests both the process and the result of developing the mind's capacity and scope.12 Small talk is what friends make when standing around doing nothing. Small talkserves as a good ice breaker when people do not know each other.13 Primary commodities constitute the determining factor of employment, income,living standards and government development expenditure in the vast majority of developing countries.14 Under the moral precept we should recoil at human cloning, because it inevitablyentails using humans as means to other humans' ends -- valuing them as copies of others we loved or as collections of body parts, not as individuals in their own right.15 Before we can learn to appreciate those different from us, we must open our heartsto tolerance.16 Like my friend, I now have an alternative to complaining. When I'm bored with my life, I take my pencils out in the back yard and doodle for an hour, trying to sketch trees that look like trees.17 Translation is not simply a matter of seeking other words with similar meaning, butof finding appropriate ways of saying things in another language. Translating is always meaning-based, i.e. it is the transfer of meaning instead of form from the source language to the target language.18 At the sight of Napoleon, the young Frenchman clicked his heels together.19 That the vitamin is sensitive to light was recognized only later.20 The government left its policy open to various interpretations.21 To see his likeness perpetuated in marble is to me today a sad but pleasingsensation.22 I suppose he will be awfully proud, and that I shall be treated most contemptuously. Still I must bear my hard lot as well as I can.23 The longest life and the shortest amount to the same. For the present is of equal duration for all, and what we lose is not ours.24 Many Londoners believe that the city needs to have all its transport requirementslooked at together to ensure that the entire transport system works as a single, efficient unit.25 Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, but he was the first man tomass-manufacture it, and this made it available to the ordinary man.26 The Labour government says that the private sector should take most, but not all,of the responsibility for public transport. In London, the underground railway system -- known as the "Tube" -- is likely to be where this policy is first put into practice.27 It's raining, again. As I lie awake in bed, listening to the sound of those razor-sharpdrops pounding on the pavement, my mind goes reeling down dark corridors teeming with agonizing flashbacks, and a chill from within fills me with dread. It's raining, again.天，又下雨了。

我躺在床上睡不着，听着雨点劈里啪啦地打着路面，思绪万千，恍恍惚惚地走进了幽暗的通道，脑际浮现出许多痛苦的往事，心里一阵冰凉，不由得毛骨悚然。

天，又下雨了。

First impressions are often lasting ones. Indeed, if you play your cards right, you can enjoy the benefits of what sociologists call the "halo effect." This means that if you're viewed positively within the critical first few minutes, the person you've met will likely assume everything you do is positive.How you move and gesture will greatly influence an interviewer's first impression of you. In a landmark study of communications, psychologists discovered that seven percent of any message about our feelings and attitudes comes from the words we use, 38 percent from our voice, and a startling 55 percent from our facial expressions. In fact, when our facial expression or tone of voice conflicts with our words, the listener will typically put more weight on the nonverbal message.To make your first encounter a positive one, start with a firm handshake. If the interviewer doesn't initiate the gesture, offer your hand first. Whenever you have a choice of seats, select a chair beside his or her desk, as opposed to one across from it. That way there are no barriers between the two of you and the effect is somewhat less confrontational. If you must sit facing the desk, shift your chair slightly as you sit down, or angle your body in the chair so you're not directly in front of your interviewer.我最初开始散步是作为一种脱身之计。