16.E-mail, ultimately , is a fragile thing, easy to forge, easy to corrupt, easy to destroy.

　　说到底，电子邮件是个脆弱的东西，易于撰写，易于讹传，易于销毁。

　　17.Flunking as a regular policy has just as much merit today as it did two generations ago.

　　让学生不及格，作为一种常规手段，其优点在今天依然和两代之前一样多。

　　18.But the more time and effort I put in, the more the universe tried to thwart me.

　　但是，我投入的时间和精力越多，万事就越和我过不去。

　　19.Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills.

　　让没有掌握本领的学生通过考核，既欺骗了期望毕业生拥有基本技能的雇主。

　　20.E-mail allows us to act before we can think-the perfect tool for a culture of hyper stimulation.

　　电子邮件允许我们未思而先行，真可谓极度刺激型文化的绝妙工具。

　　21.Our youngest, a worldclass charmer, did little to develop his intellectual talents but always got by. Until Mrs. Stifter.

　　我的小儿子是一个世界级的万人迷，学习不怎么努力却总能通过考试，直到史蒂夫特太太出现后，这种情况就改变了。

　　22.It is an expression of confidence by both teachers and parents that the students have the ability to learn the material presented to them.

　　这表明老师和家长都对学生有信心，相信他们能够学好发给他们的学习材料.

　　23.Many advertising campaigns from the 1930s through the 1950s extolled the healthy virtues of cigarettes.

　　从20世纪30年代到50年代，许多广告运动都颂扬香烟的健康品质。

　　24.But it didn’t take very long before they discovered that the most important thing was the ability to send mail around, which they had not anticipated at all.

　　然而，不久他们便发现(因特网)最重要的作用是散发邮件，这一点他们原先根本没有料想到。

　　25.It is hard to escape the fact that in developed societies, despite progress, innovation and prosperity, there is something not quite right.

　　人们很难摆脱这样一种事实：在发达的社会，尽管社会进步，改革日新月异，物质富足，却总觉得有些事情不大对劲。

　　26Ask people how they are, and they will answer in terms of their family life, community life and work life, rather than just what they are paid.

　　若问人们近况如何，他们会谈到家庭、工作以及所处社区的情况，而不是回答自己挣多少工资

　　27.Flunking as a regular policy has just as much merit today as it did two generations ago.

　　让学生不及格，作为一种常规手段，其优点在今天依然和两代之前一样多。

　　28.I know one example doesn't make a case, but at night I see a parade of students who are angry and resentful for having been passed along until they could no longer even pretend to keep up.

　　我知道一个例子不能说明问题，但我在夜校中看见了一群愤怒、怨恨的学生，他们愤恨的原因是学校让他们一路混，直到他们甚至都无法再假装跟得上。

　　1. As a result, the scientific studies of the era often failed to find clear evidence of serious pathology and had the perverse effect of exonerating the cigarette.

　　因此，这一时期的科学研究无法从严肃的病理学上找到清晰的证据，竞起到了为香烟开脱的反效果。

　　2. There is little point in denying the obvious dark side to the lack of self-constraints encouraged by e-mail.

　　避讳电子邮件引发的自律缺失的负面效应，这一做法几乎毫无意义。

　　29.Tens of thousands of 18-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas.

　　数以万计的年轻人将于今年毕业，交毫无意的的文凭。

　　30.Meanwhile, my two sisters and I, who lived in three different cities, were united once again in a hospital waiting room.

　　与此同时，我和两个妹妹原本都生活在三个不同的城市，这时却在医院的等候室里再次相聚了。