Technological developments, with all their downside, can lift people out of that backbreaking toil.

科技的发展尽管存在许多弊端，却使人们摆脱了繁重的劳作。

That hasn't dampened the enthusiasm surrounding this event.

但那并没有消减人们关于这次活动的热情。

People there have a special attachment to tofu.

这里的人们对豆腐的情感非同一般。

The Prime Minister felt it himself; people really did seem more miserable than usual.

首相自己也感觉到了，人们确实显比平常更加惶恐不安。

New York's dumping ground halfway between West Egg and the city where the burnt-out coal that powered the booming golden city was discarded by men who moved dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

它是纽约的垃圾场，就在西城之间。煤炭点燃了纽约的纸醉金迷，烧尽了便被身影朦胧的人们丢弃至此，已支离破碎在这漫天尘土中。

People also kill elephants for their ivory.

人们也会为了象牙而大象。

Just a light lunch, I think, so that people can eat while they move around and talk to each other.

我觉一顿简单的午餐就好，这样人们可以一边吃，一边走动并其他人交流。

The printing press made books available to people hitherto unable to afford them.

印刷机使以前不起书的人们起书。

The vision of what ought to have been is thrown aside in sheer weariness, and browbeaten human endeavour listlessly makes the best of the fact that is.

极度的厌烦使人把本该实现的前景抛置一边，人们的努力受挫折后，也就无精打采地往最好处想，凑合着过了。

The way that the lovers need to leave the confines of civilization.

恋人们需要挣脱文化的禁锢。

The mommy wars of the 1990s are still going on today, prompting arguments about why women still can't have it all and books like Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, whose title has become a buzzword in its own right.

二十世纪九十年代的“妈妈间的论战”直到今天仍在继续，该论战引发了人们对《妇女为什么不工作与家庭两不误呢？》诸如谢丽尔·桑德伯格的《向前一步》等书的热议，而“向前一步”这个书名本身就已成为一个流行词语。

People would open lanterns to pray for good fortune.

人们会点灯祈福。

One may get overwhelmed by what’s going on.

人们会因为所发生的事情而受到影响。

The people joined together in singing a hymn.

人们在一起唱一首欢乐的歌。

Long queues, delayed flights and overcrowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

在英国，对乘飞机时排长队、推迟航班、机场拥挤的抱怨出现在人们对话中的频率已经快要赶超他们长久以来的吐槽对象——坏天气了。

Do people there behave politely in public?

人们在公共场合表现礼貌吗？

If people knew how to overcome failure?

如果人们了解 如何走出失败的阴影？

Senator Lee says people need know more about those cases and have confidence so be handled quickly and responsibly.

参议员李表示，人们需要知道这些案件的更多信息，而且要对快速、负责地处理这些案件有信心。

We have all seen how a computer's use of personal names often fascinates people and needs them to treat the machine as if it were almost human.

我们都见过电脑使用人名是如何经常令人着迷的，以及它们又是如何需要人们对待它们几乎就像对待人类一样。

Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good men and women to do nothing.”

英国政治家埃德蒙·伯克说过：“恶势力要想取胜很容易，只要足够多的善良的男人女人们什么都不做就可以了。”