Unit 1
·The purpose of making a decision is to establish and achieve organizational goals and objectives.
决策的目的是为了建立并达到组织的目的和目的。
·Managers must make a best guess at what the future will be and try to leave as little as possible to chance.
管理者经常必须对未来的情况做出最佳的猜测，尽管不存侥幸。
·For managers, every decision has constraints based on policies, procedures, laws, precedents, and the like.
对于管理者来说，每次决策都是受到政策、程序、法律、惯例等因素的制约。
·But the tendency to simplify blinds them to other alternatives.
但是这种简化倾向会他们对于其他的可选项视而不见。
·Decision makers must have some way of determining which of several alternatives is best—that is, which contributes the most to the achievement of organizational goals.
决策者们必须有办法决定数个可选项中哪一个是最好的—哪一个对组织目标的实现起作用最大。
·Different individuals frequently have different ideas about how to attain the goals, the best choice may depend on who makes the decision. (来源：http://www.EnglishCN.com)

·Because different individuals frequently have different ideas about how to attain the goals, the best choice may depend on who makes the decision.
因为个人通常会就如何达到目标持不同见解，所以最佳选择往往取决于谁来决策。
·When presented with a common case, sales managers tend to see sales problems, production managers see production problems, and so on.
当面对同一件事例时，销售部门经理易于看到销售问题，生产部经理则会看到生产问题，如此等等。
·People often assume that a decision is an isolated phenomenon.
人们通常认为决策是一个孤立的现象。
·The literary critics should be as objective as possible in analysis and judgment.
文学批评家在分析和评价时应该尽量不偏不倚。
·She is always ready to argue over the smallest issues.
她总喜欢为极小的问题进行争论。
·I argued him out of going on such a dangerous journey.
我说服他不做这样危险的旅行。
·Although he thought he was helping us with the job, he was only in the way.
虽然他以为他在帮我们干这件事，但他只是在碍我们的事。

Unit 2

·The terms we would normally use to describe a scientific phenomenon are inadequate here.
我们通常用来描述科学现象的现有术语在这里不够用。
·Astronomers and scientists think that a black hole is a region of space into which matter has fallen and from which nothing can escape.
天文学家和科学家认为黑洞是一种空间区，物质可以掉进黑洞，但任何物质不能从黑洞中逃脱。
·Some stars explode when their density increases to a particular point.
某些星体的密度增大到某一特定点时便发生爆炸。
·This process of shrinking may be so intense that a black hole results.
收缩的过程可能非常强烈一致产生黑洞。
·It is only recently that astronomers have begun specific research into black holes.
只是近几年天文学家才开始具体研究黑洞。
·Very advanced technology could one day make use of the energy of black holes for mankind.
由于有非常先进的技术，人们也许能在将来利用黑洞的能量为人类服务。
·He has exerted all his strength to attain his goal.
他已经尽了全力以达到自己的目标。
·He has been exerting a lot of pressure on me to change my mind.
他一直在施加种种压力要我改变主意。
·The collapse of the government left the country in confusion.
政府的倒台使全国陷入混乱之中。
·The research group launched out into a series of new experiments.
研究小组着手进行了一系列新的实验。

Unit 3

·Each time it is shown, the program starts a nationwide debate on the subject.
每次播放都引起对这个问题的全国性大辩论。
·In addition to this, a second doctor must confirm that these criteria have been met.
此外，还必须有一名医生证实这些标准已经得到满足。
·In the vast majority of euthanasia cases, what the patient is actually asking for is something else.

·Euthanasia doesn't take into account that there are ways of caring for the dying.

·Anything that legally allows the shortening of life does make those people more vulnerable.
法律上允许缩短生命的任何做法只会使这些人更易受到伤害。
·Instructions will be sent immediately on request.
说明将按要求立即寄出。
·Many people opposed building a new highway because of the great cost.
由于代价过于高昂，许多人都反对修一条新公路。
·She bore the whole burden of raising two children alone.
她一个人负起抚养两个孩子的全部责任。
·Students are heavily burdened with home assignments.
学生家庭作业负担过重。
·The committee demands that no member (should) be absent.
委员会要求任何成员不得缺席。

Unit 4

·Of these 20,000, just under 2000 are being exploited and abused by their employers.
·In one of them, a Filipino maid was executed in Singapore after being convicted of murder, despite protests from various quarters that her guilt had not been adequately established.