1 在过去的几十年里，美国和澳大利亚的政府通过惩罚寄宿在学校的说本地话的孩子来迫使本地人放弃母语。
2. Many indigenous communities have in their native tongues vast repositories of knowledge about medicinal herbs, information that could provide clues to modern cures.
很多土著集体的本地语言中，含有大量的有关可以治愈现代疾病的药物和信息的知识。
3. The Living Tongues Institute recruits youth who are not fluent in their traditional tongue to become “language activists,” using digital equipment to document their elders’ voices and learn the language themselves.
Living Tongues（活语言）协会要求不能流利得讲自己原来的语言的青少年成为“language activists(语言积极分子）”，用数码道具录下他们长辈的声音来自学母语。
4. The power behind the throne is a line of attack political opponents are only too keen to deploy, as Hillary Clinton discovered.
就像Hillary Clinton所发现的，王室背后的力量是一群政治反对者，这股力量对部署（这里要联系上下文）太过于热衷。
5. When Tony returned to the No.10 flat after a long day immersed in the detail of government policy, the last thing that he needed was a further round of political discussion with me.
当托尼在一整天都沉浸在政府政策的细节中后回到第十号公寓时，最后一件事就是和我进行一轮艮长的政治对话。
6. In the last election they barely had a candidate after Mike Huckabee dropped out and, some would say, not much of one before that.
在上次的选举中，Mike Huckabee被开除后在他们勇敢的去竞选候补，并且有些人会说，在这之前这没什么了不起的。
7. Perhaps more than any one thing, the resounding courtroom defeat that they suffered in December 2005 in the conservative district of Dover, Pa…, where the “intelligent design” plaintiffs were all but accused of fraud by a Republican judge, has placed them on the defensive.
也许最重要的是，他们于2005年11月在DOVER保留区遭遇了被法庭审判无效，在那里被聪明地设计好的原告偏偏被判官Republican起诉欺诈，使他们陷入了防守的窘境。
8. Thus, even if the Texas board had defiantly voted to declare evolution to be questionable and debatable, its decision could still have spelled the end of a movement rather than the revival of one.
另外，甚至TEXAS BOARD 也已经大胆的赞成宣布革命是值得质疑的并且值得争论的，它的决定可能仍然意味着运动的终结而不是复活。
9. There are days when I almost wish the fundamentalists could get their own way, just so that they would find out what would happen to them.
有几天我几乎希望奠基人都走自己的路去，仅仅是因此他们会发现在他们身上将会发生什么事情。
10. The meeting certainly produced more than the usual photo ops and spin— and its participants did not go away yelling at one another as they have in the past.
这次会议确确实实产生了比以往更多的前景和方针（ploto ops and spin我猜的意思，对不起- -）——并且会员们也都没有争吵着离开。
妈吗吖，累死我了。。 要加分哦~~ (*^__^*) 嘻嘻……