unit 1

1.We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not

in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

标识：We are hard pressed on every side, but we are not crushed; we are perplexed, but we are not in despair; we are persecuted, but we are not abandoned; we are struck down, but we are not destroyed.

译：四面受敌，却不被碾压；内心迷茫，但从不绝望；遭到压迫，却不被放弃；虽被击倒，但不至毁灭。

2.Consequently，nothing seems good or normal that does not accord

with the requirements of the free market.

译：因此，任何不符合市场需求的东西看上去都不是好的或正常的。

3.Individual entrepreneurs do not necessarily rely on their kin

because they can not obtain financial backing from commercial resources.

译：个人企业主并不一定因为得不到商业机构的金融支持，才去依赖自己的亲戚。

4.Unfortunately，emancipation has been less profound than

expected, for not even industrial wage labor has escaped continued sex segregation in the workplace.

不幸的是，解放奴隶并没有设想的那样影响深远，因为即使是工业中的雇佣劳动也没有摆脱工作场所中持续存在的性别歧视。5.However，some broods possess a few snails of the opposing hand,

and in predominantly sinistral broods, the incidence of dextrality is surprisingly high.

但是，一些窝中会有些旋向相反的蜗牛；在左旋蜗牛占多数的窝中，出现右旋蜗牛的概率令人吃惊的高。

6.These historians, however, have analyzed less fully the

development of specifically feminist ideas and activities during the same period.

但是，这些历史学家对同一时期特定女权主义者的思想和活动的发展的分析不够充分。

7.The problem is that the compound has mixed effects in the brain, a

not unusual occurrence with psychoactive drugs.

问题是这种化合物在大脑中有着混合的效果。这对影响神经活动的药物来讲并不少见。

8.But the debate could not be resolved because no one was able to ask

the crucial questions in a form in which they could be persued productively.

但是这个争论没法得到解决，因为没有任何人可以用一种能使这些问题被有效探究的方式提出这些重要的问题。

9.In addition，the ideal of six CEO’s(female or male)serving on the

board of each of the largest corporations is realizable only if every CEO serves on six boards.

此外，只有当每位CEO都服务于这六个董事会时，这六位（女性

或男性）CEO服务于每家最大的公司董事会的理想才能实现。10.I f a cell degrades both a rapidly and a slowly synthesized mRNA

slowly, both mRNA’s will accumulate to high levels.

如果一个细胞同时缓慢的分解一个迅速合成的mRNA和一个缓慢合成的mRNA,那么这两种mRNA都会被积累到很高的水平。11.T he consumption of protein increases blood concentration of the

other amino acids much more, proportionately, than it does that of tryptophan.

蛋白质的消耗大大增加了其他氨基酸在血液中的浓度，从比例上，远远高于蛋白质的消耗增加的色氨酸在血液中的浓度的程度。12.M ore remarkable than the origion has been the persistence of such

sex segregation in twentieth-century industry.

在20 世纪的工业中，这种性别歧视的持续比其起源更引人注目。

13.T hat many terrestrial sankes in similar spatial orientations do not

experience this kind of circulatory failure suggest that certain adaptations enable them to regulate blood pressure more effectively in those orientations.

许多位于相似位置的陆生蛇不会面临血液循环方面的问题，这表明某些适应性能使它们在这些空间位置上更有效的调解自己的血压。

14.N evertheless, researchers of the Pleistocene epoch have developed

all sorts of more or less fanciful model schemes of how they would