1.地球的作用像一塊大磁鐵。
    The earth acts like a big magnet.
    2.造成事故的原因還不清楚。
    It’s not clear what caused the accident.
    3.這個句子形式是被動的,而意思是主動的。
    This sentence is passive in form but active in sense.
    4.這個調(diào)皮的男孩很不老實,他的借口一點兒也站不住腳.
    This naughty boy is far from honest and his excuse is pretty thin.
    5.在雞尾酒會上人們常?？梢钥闯龃笕宋锱c無名小卒來。那些遲到的就是大人物。
    You can always tell the somebodies from the nobodies at a cocktail party. The somebodies always come late.
    6. Broadway he turned, and halted at a glittering café, where gathered together nightly the choicest products of the grapes, the silk-worm and protoplasm.(英譯漢)