21. Supporters of underground development say that building down rather than building up is a good way to use the earth’s space.

　　地下发展的支持者说在地下搞建筑而不是在地上搞建筑是一种利用地球空间的办法。

　　简析：关键词rather than 而不是。

　　22. Those who could were likely to name a woman.

　　那些能够说出好朋友名字的单身男人，很有可能说出一个女人的名字。

　　简析：省略句who could (name a best friend )承前省。

　　23. In general, women’s friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men’s relationships are marked by shared activities.

　　一般来说，女人相互的友谊基于相互分享情感和支持，但男人间的关系以共同参与社会活动为特征。

　　简析：关键词rest on 依靠。

　　24.For the most part, interactions between men are emotionally controlled —a good fit with the social requirements of“manly behavior”.

　　就大部分而言，男人间的交往在感情上受控制，这与“男子汉气概” 的社会要求是相符合的。

　　简析：关键词for the most part就大部分而言。

　　25.Whereas a woman’s closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn’t unusual to hear a man say he didn’t know his friend’s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa.

　　一个女人最亲密的女性朋友可能是第一个告诉她离开一次失败的婚姻;而听见一个男人说直到他的朋友一天晚上问他是否可以睡在他家的沙发上他才知道他朋友的婚姻已非常糟糕，这是很平常的。

　　简析：夹杂多种语法结构not unusual=usual; not…until…，直到…才…。

　　26. Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups.

　　1066年以前，在我们现在称为英国的土地上，住着属于两个主要语种的民族。

　　简析：倒装句，并含有定语从句及分词短语。

　　27. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.

　　如果这种情况延续下去的话，那么今天的英语将和德语很相近。

　　简析：含虚拟语气。

　　28. We even have different word for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which Shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming. while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.

　　我们甚至对某些食物有不同的单词，特别是肉类，取决于它是长在田野里，还是在家里准备煮着吃，这就表明一个事实，即萨克森农民在农田干活，而上层阶级的诺曼人在大吃大喝。

　　29. When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more “Foreign” than France because the German they see on signs and ads seems much more different from English than French does.

　　当美国人第一次游览欧洲时，他们通常发现德国比法国对他们来说更加“陌生”，因为他们在标牌和广告上看到的德语，比起法语更加不同于英语。

　　简析：含比较级句型结构。

　　30. Some companies have made the manufacturing of clean and safe products their main selling point and emphasize it in their advertising.

　　一些公司已经把洁净安全产品的生产当作他们主要的销售关键，并且在他们的广告宣传中强调这一点。

　　简析：make后接双宾语。

　　31. After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success, that is, when guests leave the igloo hotel they will receive a paper stating that they have had a taste of adventure.

　　在他们逗留之后，所有的游客都会收到一份生存证明记录他们的成功，也就是说当游客离开小冰屋旅馆时，他们会得到一份证明，表明他们曾尝试过冒险。

　　简析：含两个分词短语，关键词state表明。

　　32. The major market force rests in the growing population of white-collar employees, who can afford the new service, in other words, Shanghai’s car rental industry is growing so fast mainly due to the increasing number of white-collar employees.

　　主要的市场因素取决于白领工人的人数增加，这些人付得起这种新型服务，换句话说，上海的汽车出租行业发展如此快，主要因为白领工人人数的增加。

　　简析：关键词rest in 依赖。

　　33. That you won’t be for long means it won’t be long before you’ll have to recycle your rubbish.

　　你不会等很长时间意味着过不了多久你就会回收你的垃圾。

　　简析：夹杂主语从句及宾语从句。

　　34. These words, I have just made up, have to stand for thing and ideas that we simply can’t think of.

　　这些词，是我编造的，只是代表我们不能想到的事物和观念。

　　简析：关键词make up 编造。

　　35. Picturing(Imagining) the future will serve the interests of the present and future generations.

　　简析：关键词picture活用为动词想象，设想。

　　36. Decision thinking is not unlike poker — it often matters not only what you think, but also what others think you think and what you think they think you think.

　　做决策像打扑克牌，起作用的不但是你怎么想的，还包括别人对你的想法是怎么看的以及你对别人的看法是如何考虑的。

　　简析：含较复杂的句型结构not unlike=like not only…but also…不仅…而且…

　　37. The easy way out isn’t always easiest.

　　简析：关键词the way out 解决问题的办法。

　　38.The hot sun had caused the dough (面团) to double in size and the fermenting yeast(酵母) made the surface shake and sigh as though it were breathing and it looked like some unknown being from outer space.

　　炙热的太阳导致面团面积加倍，酵母使面团的表面摆晃叹息，似乎它在呼吸，它看上去像某种来自外部空间的无名生物。

　　简析：比喻形象生动。

　　39. After all, what lively children wouldn’t settle for spending only half the day doing ordinary school work, and acting, singing or dancing their way through the other half of the day?

　　简析：反问句式，语气强烈。

　　40. Dad, in a hurry to get home before dark so he could go for a run, had forgotten wear his safety belt—a mistake 75% of the US population make every day.

　　爸爸，急匆匆地在天黑之前赶回家，以便他能出去跑步，却忘记系安全带—这是75%的美国人每天犯的一个错误。

　　简析：关键词for a run去跑步。