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Translation - Sentence - English to Chinese

Directions: Put the phrases below into Chinese.

1. If you are in a bad mood, you may wonder what good, what understanding could come from the meeting of an exhausted tourist with the merchants of a city that he is visiting in three days, running dutifully through five churches, four museums, and a row of souvenir(纪念品) shops.

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2. In no sense does English replace the culture heritage (遗产) and emotional ties of the native language, but for many speakers throughout the world, it provides a means of communication with people of similar training and interests who would otherwise not understand them.

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3. The very best standard of living is nothing if it is not possible to take a pleasant walk in the district, if the children can not be allowed to play in the streets, because the risks of traffic are too great, if during shopping you can nowhere find a spot for enjoying for a moment the nice weather, in short, if you only feel yourself at home after the street-door of your house is closed after you.

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4. From what is stated above, it is learned that the sun's heat can pass through the empty space between the sun and the atmosphere that surrounds the earth, and that most of the heat is dispersed(散射) through the atmosphere and lost, which is really what happens in the practical case, but to what extent it is lost has not been found out.

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5. Because coal contains 80 percent more carbon per unit of energy than natural gas and 30 percent more than oil, burning it contributes 36 percent of the world's annual emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that is warming the earth's atmosphere.

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6. It is perhaps because the characteristics of television, which determine what it can best communicate, are so different from those of printing, that professional educators were reluctant for so long to interest themselves in the newer method.

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7. Although perhaps only 1 percent of the life that has started somewhere will develop into highly complex and intelligent patterns, so vast is the number of planets that intelligent life is bound to be a natural part of the universe.

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8. Basically, applied science starts with the clear understanding of a human need and then uses all the available scientific knowledge to assist in the achievement and satisfaction of this need.

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9. Some physicians and research workers consider the increase in respiratory(呼吸的) diseases and various forms of cancer may possibly be explained by other factors in the complex human environment atmospheric pollution, increased nervous stress, chemical substances in processed food, or chemical pesticides(杀虫剂) that are now being used by farmers in vast quantities to destroy insects and small animals.

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10. Everything all of us know about the way the world is changing and the challenges your generation will face tell us that our two nations will be far better off working together than apart.

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