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Key sentences and translation Unit 1 -6 Unit 1 The Lady or the Tiger? When a subject was accused of a crime of sufficient importance to interest the king, public notice was given that on an appointed day the fate of an accused person would be decided in the king’s arena. 当臣民被指控犯罪，而且其罪行足以令国王关注时，就会发布公告，告知在某一指定的日期，被指控者的命运将在国王的竞技场上决定。 Young and beautiful maidens were carefully surveyed inorder that the young man might have a suitable bride if fate did not determine for him a different destiny. 全国年轻漂亮的少女也被甄选，以便为他挑选一位最合适的新娘，必备此命并不该绝。 From the very moment that the decree had gone forth that her lover should decide his fate in the arena, she had thought of nothing. 自从要在竞技场上决定他情人命运的命令发出的那一刻，她的心里再也没想过别的事。 He had expected her to know it as he understood her nature and determination. It was as plain to her as if he had shouted it from where he stood. 这个问题对她来说是在再明白不过了，就像他从他站着的地方向她大声发问一样明白无误。 It involves a study of the human heart which leads us through the devious mazes of passion out of which it is difficult to find our way. 它涉及到对人类内心世界的研究，这种研究必然要经历个个迂回曲折的激情迷宫，从中我们很难找到出路。 Unit 2 No One Stops to Say “Thank You “ Anymore If youth are any indication, we are truly destined to become a society of people who think only of themselves. 如果今天的年轻人能够预示什么的话，那就是我们注定要形成一个人人为己的社会。 It’s not necessary to provide yet another analysis of the disintegration of the family or the breakdown of the social fabric or the price of democracy to explain what had happened to our society. 我们 没有必要对家庭分裂、社会结构瘫痪、民主的代价再进行分析来解释我们这个社会究竟出了什么问题。 Unit 3 Business lessons from the rainforest If we ran our companies like the rain forest, imagine how creative, how productive, how ecologically benign we would be. 如果我们像雨林那样经营我们的公司，可以想象我们将会多么富有创造性，具有多么强的生产力，我们将成为善待生态环境的义士。 People talk today about business needing to be socially responsible, as if this is something new we need to do, on top of everything else we do. 现在人们谈起企业需要对社会负责，好像这是一件新鲜事，是除了我们所做的所有其他事情之外需要额外去做的一件事。 Unit 4 On Friendship But as we use the word