被动结构

原文

circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us, and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.

翻译

环境似乎旨在激发我们最大的潜能，如果我们感觉自己受到“不公正对待”，那么就不太可能有意识地去努力摆脱自己的处境。

原文

There is a great deal of this kind of nonsense in the medical journals which, when taken up by broadcasters and the lay press, generates both health scares and short-lived dietary enthusiasms.

翻译

医学期刊中存在大量诸如此类的无稽之谈，当这些观点经由广播公司和非专业报刊传播时，就会引发人们对健康问题的恐慌，也会引起短暂的饮食热潮。

原文

With the Church's teachings and ways of thinking being eclipsed by the Renaissance, the gap between the Medieval and modern periods had been bridged, leading to new and unexplored intellectual territories.

翻译

随着教会的教义和思维方式因文艺复兴而黯然失色，中世纪和现代之间的鸿沟得以消除，由此，开辟了全新的未探索的知识领域。

原文

Beethoven’s habit of increasing the volume with an extreme intensity and then abruptly following it with a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.

翻译

贝多芬习惯以极强的力度增强音量，然后突然用一段意想不到的轻柔的乐章紧随其后。他之前的作曲家极少采用这种做法。

原文

Such actions to seek knowledge and to understand what information we already knew were captured by the Latin phrase ‘sapere aude’ or ‘dare to know’,

翻译

寻求知识，理解已知信息，这样的行为可以用拉丁词组“sapere aude”，即“敢于求知”来概括。

原文

More efforts should be made.

翻译

应付出更多努力。

原文

Attempts have been made to curb this tendency, for example, by trying to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the assessment of an applicant’s papers.

翻译

（学界）已经做出尝试去抑制这种趋势，比如，除了数量以外，还尝试将某种对质量的衡量纳入到评价申请者的论文中。

原文

Here, Darwinism seems to offer justification, for if all humans share common origins, it seems reasonable to suppose that cultural diversity could also be traced to more constrained beginnings.

翻译

在这一点上，达尔文主义似乎做出了证明，因为如果全人类有着共同的起源，那么似乎有理由认为文化多样性也可以追溯到更有限的源头。

原文

Our mental health doesn’t really go anywhere; like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.

翻译

我们的心理健康并没有真的消失；就像云朵后面的太阳，它可能会暂时从视野中消失，但是完全能够在瞬间重现。

原文

A native literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.

翻译

一种本土的文学戏剧已经诞生，它与公共剧院的联盟已经建立，至少有一些伟大的传统也已经开启。

原文

Despite attempts by the Church to suppress this new generation of logicians and rationalists, more explanations for how the universe functioned were being made at a rate that the people could no longer ignore.

翻译

尽管教会试图去压制新一代的逻辑学家和理性主义者，但是关于宇宙是如何运作的更多解释不断出现，其速度让人们不能再熟视无睹。

原文

The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality, identifying traits (particularly in word order) shared by many languages, which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

翻译

第二次尝试由约书亚·格林伯格做出，他采用了一种更加经验主义的方法来研究语言的普遍性，识别了很多语言共有的（尤其在词序方面）的特征，这些特征被视作代表了由认知限制产生的倾向。

原文

yet when one looks at the photographs of the gardens created by the homeless, it strikes one that, for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.

翻译

然而，当我们看到那些由无家可归者创造的花园的照片时，我们会突然意识到，尽管它们风格多样，但是这些花园除了表达（人类）装饰和创造性表达的欲望之外，还体现了（人类）各种其他的根本欲望。

原文

This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.

翻译

受到各种强大动机的驱动，这场迁徙运动从一片荒野中建立了一个国家，并在本质上塑造了这片未知大陆的特征与命运。

原文

The changes identified by David Graddol all present clear and major challenges to the UK’s providers of English language teaching to people of other countries and to broader education business sectors.

翻译

大卫·格兰多指出的这些变化给向其他国家的人提供英语教学的英国教育机构以及更广泛的从事教育行业的公司都带来明确且重大的挑战。

原文

With the Church's teachings and ways of thinking being eclipsed by the Renaissance, the gap between the Medieval and modern periods had been bridged, leading to new and unexplored intellectual territories.

翻译

随着教会的教义和思维方式因文艺复兴而黯然失色，中世纪和现代之间的鸿沟得以消除，由此，开辟了全新的未探索的知识领域。