英译汉7. But the official of the UN said that the talk of financial aid is premature.

英译汉9. Amazon's big name and reach makes it an immediate force in the 3D printing sector.

英译汉5. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

英译汉 She pulls meat from the claw

英译汉9. Education is not intended to make lawyers or clergymen, soldiers or schoolmasters, farmers or artisans, but men.

英译汉2. Your education and intellect is measured by your modesty.

英译汉5. One of the earliest attempts in the Western world to formulate principles of health care based upon rational thought and rejection of supernatural phenomena is found in the work of the Greek physician Hippocrates.

英译汉 Since there is no evidence that human cancer

英译汉 What we know today

英译汉1. Michael Phelps Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps admitted Sunday that he had engaged in "regrettable" behavior and "demonstrated bad judgment" after a photo was published that appeared to show him smoking cannabis. A British newspaper, the News of the World, published the photo allegedly showing the multiple Olympic gold medal-winner inhaling from a glass pipe which is generally used to smoke the drug. "I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment," Phelps said in a statement. "I am 23 years old, and despite the successes I have had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner that people have come to expect from me." "For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public—it will not happen again." The newspaper said the picture was taken on November 6, almost three months after Phelps won a historic eight gold medals at the 29th Olympics, when he went to a party at the University of South Carolina. USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport, said it was disappointed by Phelp's admission. "We are certainly disappointed in Michael's behavior. Our Olympic champions are role models who are looked up to by people of all ages, especially young athletes who have their own aspirations and dreams," USA Swimming said in a statement. "That said, we realized that none among us is perfect. We hope that Michael can learn from this incident and move forward in a positive way." The US Olympic Committee also expressed disappointing in the swimmer, who on January 22 was named the USOC's Sportsman of the Year for making Olympic history by collecting the most golds won by any athlete at a single Game, giving him a career total of 14 golds. "We are disappointed in the behavior recently exhibited by Michael Phelps. "Michael is a role model, and he is well aware of the responsibilities and accountability that come with setting a positive example for others, particularly young people. In this instance, regrettably, he failed to fulfill those responsibilities," the USOC said. The photograph shows Phelps, wearing a white-shirt and a baseball cap back to front, holding the pipe—known as a bong—to his lips and apparently inhaling. The tabloid quoted a partygoer as saying: "You could tell Michael had smoked before. He grabbed the bong and a lighter and knew exactly what to do."

英译汉1. Who Puts a Spoke in Mitsubishi's Wheel With American sales of Mitsubishi, once one of the hottest car brands, in a free fall, the company's executives are trying to engineer a turnaround. Sales started picking up this month, but even so, Ms. Prendergast-Lunn expects her dealership to sell only half the number of vehicles it did a year earlier. "I'm hoping to end July with 35 or 40 sales," she said. In other words, circumstances in the car market have forced her to lower substantially her expectations. She is in effect being made to pay for mistakes Mitsubishi management has made over the past decade. Other dealers are struggling as well. The market share of Mitsubishi Motors North America, the United States unit of the Japanese automaker, has been halved in just a year, to 0.8 percent last month from 1.5 percent last June, according to the Autodata Corporation. In June, the company's sales dropped 45.7 percent, to 12,301. Shrinking sales resulted in diminished production. In 2008 production fell by 23 percent in Asia, 30 percent in Europe and a staggering 41 percent in North America. Mitsubishi announced last week that it would lay off 1,200 employees, or about a third of its work force. Mitsubishi has also decreased its advertising. For years it pitched the brand to young consumers with cheap financing and emotional eye-catching ads set to pop music. That strategy created some of its trouble because it suffered a high default rate on the loans. Analysts say that Mitsubishi needs to write off about $1 billion in bad loans. The American sales slump has been a big factor in the struggles of the Japanese parent company, but not the only factor. Mitsubishi has also suffered from a cover-up of defects in its cars and trucks for decades. It was hoped a new CEO would solve many of these problems. Finbarr O'Neill, who had recently rescued Korean carmaker Hyundai, was brought in. He promptly shifted the marketing focus from the unreliable youth sector to the older middle class, emphasizing quality and durability in new family cars. O'Neill's innovations failed to revive sales, and he abruptly left Mitsubishi. (He would later complain that the advertising agency had not explained those attractions adequately to potential buyers.) In April, Mitsubishi's minority owner, DaimlerChrysler, decided not to invest any more money in the troubled carmaker, and Mitsubishi had to scramble for money to cover its debts. The Phoenix Capital Company, a Tokyo-based investment firm, bought a third of the company, replacing DaimlerChrysler as the controlling partner. So what is Mitsubishi's reason for existence? The answer is to cast Mitsubishi's vehicles as performance-driven alternatives to some of the country's most respected brands. Advertising for the redesigned Galant midsize sedan introduced earlier this year, pits the car against the Toyota Camry in a high-speed crash avoidance test. The cars follow two trucks from which two men are throwing everything from bowling balls to iron bars in front of the two fast-moving cars. Each car swerves to miss the obstacles. Finally, two old cars fall out of the back of the trucks and the Galant and the Camry swerve to miss them. The Galant deftly maneuvers around them while the Camry is left in the dust. Along with the updated Galant a new sports car and a pick-up truck will go into production. Many experts doubt that those additions will be enough to save Mitsubishi from ultimate collapse in today's competitive car market.

英译汉3. Continental winds blow from the northwest throughout winter and spring, creating cold dry weather suitable for wheat; in summer, the monsoon from the southeast drives warm moisture-laden air into the continent.

英译汉9. GM's hydrogen fuel car in China underscores a drive toward going green, company CEO Rick Wagoner says.

英译汉8. Since the executive teams of both firms have committed themselves to the deal, they would be utterly discredited if it fell apart.

英译汉4. ff the benefits outweigh the costs when it comes to utilizing such a tool, then it is hard to pass up.

英译汉11. They may pay lip service to respecting our heritage and environment.

英译汉2. Date palms have grown prolifically in both Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Egypt for many thousands of years. Dates are rich in sugar, and in such warm climates fermentation into a liquid containing alcohol took place fairly quickly. Thus, while our first records of dates being made into wine come from the period 3000 B.C. to 2000 B.C., we feel certain that it was made much earlier. Since the fruit itself houses the yeast fungus that causes fermentation, making date wine was a fairly simple process. The only pieces of equipment needed were a jar to hold the date and a strainer used at the end of the fermentation.

英译汉12. Carbon monoxide doesn't normally cause problems in a well-ventilated area where the gas is spread, but if it builds up in enclosed or poorly-ventilated spaces, it causes poisoning when the fumes are inhaled.

英译汉10. A bill that would give the White House expedited authority to enter into a Pacific Rim trade agreement finally appears to be on a path to the president's desk.

英译汉15. When a faculty has exclusive authority to determine its own membership, it has achieved full status as a professional body. The standards applied measure the individual's performance of the several faculty functions—teaching, research activity, and service to the community.