24. Just as history has shown that species which fail to adapt die out, businesses will die out if they don’t get to grips with the Internet. 正如历史所示, 适者生存, 企业如果不紧跟互联网就将退出历史的舞台。

　　25. Television is different from radio in that it sends and receives pictures.

　　电视与无线电不同, 电视能播送和接收图像。

　　26. When people master the digital organization, it will greatly simplify and improve both their professional and personal lives.

　　当人们掌握了这种数码管理方法后, 他们的工作与个人生活都会得以极大地简化并改善。

　　27. A new IT high-tech park in Beijing is helping the city keep its promise to be the country’s center of the knowledge-based economy.一所焕然一新的IT高科技园帮助北京实现了它的诺言：成为全国知识型经济的中心。

　　28. Observation is the best teacher.

　　观察是最好的老师。

　　29. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

　　想像力比知识更重要。 ── 爱因斯坦

　　30. Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

　　知识是一座宝库，而实践是开启宝库的钥匙。

　　31. We can kill two birds with one stone by combining our honeymoon with our business trip.

　　我们可以把蜜月和出差合在一起，这样一举两得。

　　32. Greatly inspired, he made up his mind to read as much as he could, and what’s more, he would study harder than ever before.

　　他深受鼓舞，决心尽可能多读书，而且，比以往任何时候都努力学习。

　　33. Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

　　世界上再也没有比实实在在的无知和认认真真的愚蠢更危险的了。─ 小马丁·路德·金 (美国社会活动家)

　　34. Eat to live, but live to eat.

　　吃饭是为了生存而不是生存为了吃饭。

　　35. To my knowledge, my daughter has never told a lie before.

　　据我所知, 我女儿以前从未说过谎。

　　36. In the long run, basic knowledge and technological applications go hand in hand—one helps the other.

　　归根结蒂, 基础知识和技术应用是并进的, 相辅相成的。

　　37. Reading (and learning) is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

　　读书之于思想, 就如运动之于身体。

　　38. English is now the international language for airline pilots, scientists, medical experts, businessmen and many others. Consequently, more and more people are learning it.

　　现在, 对于航空公司飞行员、科学家、医学家、商人及许多其他行业的工作者来说, 英语是一门国际性语言, 因此越来越多的人开始学习英语。

　　39. Unlike many other widely used languages, English can be correctly used in very simple form with less than one thousand basic words and very few grammatical rules.

　　与许多其他被广泛应用的语言不同, 英语仅凭借将近一千个基础词汇和很少的语法规则，就能够用简单的形式正确地表达意思。

　　40. English will doubtless continue to change and develop as a living language always does.

　　毫无疑问, 英语将像一种活的语言贯常的变化和发展一样继续变化和发展下去。

　　41. Another reason for the popularity of English is that English-speaking countries are spread through out the world.

　　英语流行的另一个原因是说英语的国家遍布世界各地。

　　42. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

　　天才是百分之一的灵感和百分之九十九的汗水

　　43. An estimated 310 million people in Britain, U.S.A., Canada, Australia, South Africa, etc. use English as their mother tongue.

　　据统计，在英国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚和南非等国有三亿一千万人以英语为母语。

　　44. It is surprising that some students have little or no knowledge of English.

　　令人感到吃惊的是, 有些学生英语懂得很少, 或者根本不懂英语。

　　45. The rush to learn English has reached even China.

　　这种学习英语的浪潮甚至波及到中国。

　　46. Washington is known as “the father of his country” and is one of those “larger than life” historical figures who are known around the world.

　　华盛顿被称为“美国国父”，是一位誉满全球的具有传奇色彩的历史人物。

　　47. Many immigrants have come to this land of opportunity for that reason-to seek a better future.

　　许多移民基于这个缘故来到了这块充满机会的土地上──为了追求一个更好的未来。

　　48. Not all Americans are rich, but most are concerned about money. Success-oriented Americans often measure people’s worth by how much they have.

　　并非所有的美国人都很有钱, 但大多数美国人都在乎钱。以成功为取向的美国人常常用人们拥有财产的多少来衡量他们的价值。

　　49. As a result, nearly half of foreign students in the U.S. are concentrated in just 100 out of 2,500 post-secondary institutions, mostly brand-name schools.

　　结果, 在美留学生几乎有一半集中在2500所高校的仅100所, 这些学校大多是名牌学校。

　　50. Credit cards symbolize American shopping habits: “Buy now, pay later.”

　　信用卡反映美国人的购物习惯：“现在买, 以后付。”