speaking in the presence of so many strangers.
4要在学习上取得进步，学生需要具备独立学习的技能而不是事事都依靠教师。 In order to get ahead in their studies, students need to equip themselves with independent—study skills instead of relying on their teachers for everything.
5现在的年轻人变得老成，他们确信成就是以拥有多少财产来衡量的。
Young people nowadays are growing up old, with the conviction that achievement is measured by how many possessions one owns.
6许多学生为他们利用课余时间打工辩解，说这会减少他们的经济压力。
Many students justify their working part time by saying that it reduces their economic pressure on them.
7你现在必须马上做的是填好在你来时给你的表格。
What you need to do right now is to fill in the forms you were given when you arrived.
8就事业本身而言，需要一个人毕生的奉献，但是这并不意味着进入一种职业后就要坚持不懈地一直干下去。
A career in itself requires one’s lifelong devotion, but it does not mean that after you get into a profession you must continue in that same one all along.
Unit 5
1为了帮助外国投资者更好地了解上海，他们根据能找到的各种资料来源汇编了这本小小的指南。
To help foreign investors get a better understanding of Shanghai, they’ve compiled this little guide from the various sources they could find.
2他是那种在计划实现之后才让大家知道的那种人。
He’s the sort of person who prefers to keep his plans to himself until they’re realized.
3我千里迢迢到纽约来看他，结果却发现他两天前出国了。
I came to New York from far away to see him, only to find he had gone abroad two days before.
4现在很难想象没有电、没有电视、没有电话，我们是如何生存了如此之久的。 It is difficult to imagine now how we’ve survived for so long without electricity, television or telephone.
5只要钱是老老实实赚来的，新政策鼓励人们变得富有。
The new policy encourages people to become wealthy if the money has been acquired honestly.
