1.It's more a poem than a picture. 与其说那是一幅画，不如说那是一首诗。 2.He drank himself out of the best lines. 他借酒写得好诗句。 3.He pretends to be as modest as anything. 他装得极为谦虚。 4.Fire goes wherever it can, but it prefers to follow a draft. 火是无孔不入的，可是它更爱窜入通风的地方。 5.The room was easily traced by the noise that was coming from it. 循声而去，便轻而易举地找到了那间屋子。 6.Taking care to pitch my voice to politeness, I asked about the next bus to Hattiesburg. 我陪着小心，用温和的口吻询问开往哈蒂斯堡下一班车的情况。 7.If you feel depressed at a social gathering, keep it a secret. 在社交场合，你就是感到情绪压抑，也不要表露出来。 8.The bacteria pneumonia may complicate influenza at both extremes of age. 患有流感的幼儿和老人可能并发细菌性肺炎。 9.He wants a lawyer who understands his case, who sympathizes with him and who has been there himself. 他要找一位了解他的案情，同情他的处境，并有过亲身经历的人当他的律师。 10.World-famous for his works he was never personally well known, for
throughout his life he avoided publicity. 他的著作举世闻名，而他个人却一直默默无闻，因为他一生始终避免抛头露面。 11.While you are in the act of summoning your energies, focus on a plan. Don't exhaust yourself with fruitless excursions into any and all possibilities. 在集中精力的过程中，要集中于一种打算；不要同时涉足各种可能的情况而搞得精疲力竭一事无成。 12.A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it is bad, it can not last too long; if good you can not get rid of it too early. 书可以比作邻居：如果是好的，相处愈久愈好；如果是坏的，分手愈早愈好。 13.Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check -- a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds".美国没有履行这种神圣的义务，相反，只是给黑人开了一张空头支票，上面盖了“资金不足”的戳子后被退了回来。 14.A friend is someone who draws out your own best qualities, with whom you sparkle and become more of whatever the friendship draws upon. 朋友是能使你表现出自己最佳品质的人，和他在一起你就会精神焕发，并且变得更具有友谊所要求的种种内涵。 15.To petrol we owe the existence of the motor-car, which has replaced the private carriage drawn by the horse. To petrol we owe the possibility of flying. 有了汽油，我们才有了汽车，取代了私人马车；有了汽油，我们才有可能飞上天空。
