考研If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?.

如果一切进展如此顺利，那么为什么1700多万人投票支持英国脱欧，尽管有人警告说脱欧会对英国的经济前景造成什么影响？。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研But despite common misconceptions, a gap year does not hinder the success of academic pursuits—in fact, it probably enhances it.

但是，尽管存在普遍的误解，空档年并不妨碍学业的成功——事实上，它可能会增强学业的成功。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级In the United States, up to forty percent of all food goes uneaten, despite the fact that one in seven American households lacks regular access to good food.

在美国，高达百分之四十的食物没有食用，尽管事实上七分之一的美国家庭无法定期获得优质食物。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级Despite the ease with which the rich can acquire almost anything they desire, they are just as likely to be unhappy as the middle classes.

尽管富人可以轻而易举地获得他们想要的任何东西，但他们和中产阶级一样可能不快乐。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly confirm earlier studies.

尽管实验取得了成功，但实际结果令人担忧，并且大部分证实了早期的研究。

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

高考The thing is, a number of them have admitted that despite their success, they aren't happy.

问题是，他们中的一些人承认，尽管他们取得了成功，但他们并不快乐。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

考研This advice is more relevant now than ever before, even as more parents want to embrace the ideas of their children, despite the current housing crunch.

这一建议现在比以往任何时候都更具相关性，即使在目前住房紧张的情况下，更多的家长希望接受孩子的想法。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Despite mournful polar bears and charts showing carbon emissions soaring, most people find it hard to believe that global warming will affect them personally.

尽管北极熊哀伤不已，图表显示碳排放量飙升，但大多数人很难相信全球变暖会对他们个人造成影响。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Despite clear signs of global warming it is not easy for most people to believe climate change will affect their own lives.

尽管有明显的全球变暖迹象，但大多数人并不容易相信气候变化会影响他们自己的生活。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考Despite the pain, I stayed the course walking a bit and then running again.

尽管疼痛，我还是坚持走了一会儿，然后又跑了起来。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, lived in constant fear of meat-eating animals.

因此，生活在一百万年前的人类，尽管他们有着巨大的大脑和锋利的石器，却一直生活在对肉食动物的恐惧之中。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

高考In any case, despite so much evidence to the contrary, many managers still agree to theory X.

无论如何，尽管有这么多相反的证据，许多经理仍然同意X理论。

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

高考Despite the previous rounds of talks, no agreement has been reached so far by the two sides.

尽管前几轮会谈，双方迄今尚未达成任何协议。

2015年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

考研Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida made opposition to the zone a centrepiece of his election campaign, despite its success in improving air quality.

市长何塞·路易斯·马丁内斯·阿尔梅达（Jose Luis Martinez Almeida）将反对该区作为其竞选活动的中心，尽管该区在改善空气质量方面取得了成功。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Despite their many differences, all human beings share several defining characteristics.

尽管存在许多差异，但所有人都有几个共同的特征。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

四级In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

仅去年一年，尽管英国人口增加，家庭数量随之增加，但卫生纸的销售下降了2%，普通家庭的卫生纸支出从2014年的43英镑降至2015年的41英镑。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

然而，尽管全世界已有20亿人在饮食中添加昆虫，但消费者的厌恶感在许多西方国家仍然是一大障碍。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

四级Some scholars think teamwork may not always be reliable, despite its potential to work wonders.

一些学者认为团队合作可能并不总是可靠的，尽管它有创造奇迹的潜力。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研Despite variations in detail, wholesale markets in the countries that have been closely examined— France, Germany, Italy and Spain—are made out of the same building blocks.

尽管在细节上存在差异，但经过仔细检查的国家（法国、德国、意大利和西班牙）的批发市场都是由相同的构件组成的。

2010年考研阅读原文

高考I learned through another woman's eyes that my daughter was still a good person despite her troubled teenage years.

我通过另一个女人的眼睛了解到，尽管我女儿十几岁时遇到了麻烦，但她仍然是一个好人。

2015年高考英语重庆卷 完形填空 A 原文

六级So, despite all the talk about drone deliveries to your doorstep, all the retail executives expressing anxiety over consumers going online, and even a Presidential candidate exclaiming that Amazon has a " huge antitrust problem, " the Census data suggest

因此，人口普查数据显示，尽管人们都在谈论无人机送货上门，但所有零售业高管都对消费者上网表示担忧，甚至一位总统候选人也惊叹亚马逊存在“巨大的反垄断问题”

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Despite the turmoil, brick and mortar won't disappear any time soon.

尽管动荡，砖头和灰泥不会很快消失。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级It is utterly confusing to me that people do not recognize this, despite the fact that pretty much anyone who has been a student can tell the difference between their best and worst teachers.

人们不认识到这一点，这让我感到十分困惑，尽管事实上，几乎任何一个曾经是学生的人都能分辨出他们最好的老师和最差的老师。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Despite the ease with which the rich can acquire almost anything they desire, they are just as likely to be unhappy as the middle classes

尽管富人可以轻而易举地获得他们想要的任何东西，但他们和中产阶级一样可能不快乐

2013年12月阅读原文

高考The reason why the ponies here are naughty is that Haytor is a tourist-heavy area and tourists are constantly feeding the ponies foods, despite signs asking them not to.

这里的小马淘气的原因是海托是一个旅游胜地，游客们不断地给小马喂食，尽管有迹象要求他们不要这样做。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级Indoor pollution, which includes sources like home heating and cooking, has remained constant over the past several decades despite advances in the area.

室内污染，包括家庭取暖和烹饪等污染源，尽管在这方面取得了进展，但在过去几十年中一直保持不变。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级Despite arguments and disagreements, the movement has continued to flourish and has members in more than 80 countries.

尽管存在争论和分歧，但该运动继续蓬勃发展，其成员遍布80多个国家。

2010年6月听力原文

六级Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.

尽管尼日利亚是非洲第二大番茄生产国，但每年仍依赖价值10亿美元的番茄酱进口，因为当地75%的收成由于缺乏适当的储存设施而浪费掉。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

考研Unfortunately, despite years in the making, “The Heart of the Matter” never gets to the heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.

不幸的是，尽管经过多年的努力，“核心问题”从未触及问题的核心：我们领先的学院和大学的自由教育的不自由性质。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

2005年，IBM在一份法庭文件中指出，尽管它质疑授予商业方法专利的法律依据，但它已经获得了300多项商业方法专利。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents, despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

2005年，IBM在一份法庭文件中指出，它已经获得了300多项商业方法专利，尽管它质疑授予这些专利的法律依据。

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Ideas about learning by doing have struggled to become mainstream educationally, despite being old concepts from Dewey and Montessori, Plato and Aristotle, and in the American context, Ralph Emerson, on the value of experience and self-reliance.

尽管杜威和蒙台梭利、柏拉图和亚里士多德以及拉尔夫·爱默生（Ralph Emerson）在美国关于经验和自力更生的价值的旧观念已经过时，但在实践中学习的理念仍难以成为教育的主流。

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Despite being unaware that there were two types of instruction, teachers reported significant motivational changes in 27% of the children in the growth mindset workshop as compared with only 9% of students in the control group.

尽管不知道有两种类型的教学，但在成长思维研讨会上，教师报告27%的孩子在动机上发生了显著变化，而对照组只有9%的学生在动机上发生了变化。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

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

尽管教会试图加强这一新一代逻辑学家和理性主义者的力量，但对宇宙如何运行的更多解释正在形成，并且以包括教会在内的人们无法再忽视的速度出现。

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Despite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like.

尽管在过去50年中，Zs一代毕业后成为了最好的经济体，但他们知道经济列车失事是什么样子的。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Despite the appeals court's decision, big questions remain unanswered.

尽管上诉法院做出了裁决，但重大问题仍未得到解答。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Despite unemployment and the lost of her home, Andrea Clark considers herself a blessed and happy woman.

尽管失业和失去了家园，安德里亚·克拉克认为自己是一个幸福快乐的女人。

2012年12月听力原文

六级Despite bottoming out in 1933, the Depression didn't end until World War II.

尽管大萧条在1933年触底，但直到第二次世界大战才结束。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级Despite having a brain no bigger than the tip of your index finger, pigeons have a very impressive visual memory.

尽管鸽子的大脑不比你的食指尖大，但它的视觉记忆却令人印象深刻。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

高考And their minds are bright despite their dirty hands and clothes.

尽管他们的手和衣服很脏，他们的头脑还是很聪明的。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

考研More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.

最近，在研究住房建设时，研究人员发现，尽管建筑业的工作很复杂，但德克萨斯州休斯顿的文盲、不讲英语的墨西哥工人始终符合最佳实践劳动生产率标准。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研Despite variations in detail, wholesale markets in the countries that have been closely examined—France, Germany, Italy and Spain—are made out of the same building blocks.

尽管在细节上存在差异，但经过仔细检查的法国、德国、意大利和西班牙等国的批发市场都是由相同的构件组成的。

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building in

最近，在检查住房建设时，研究人员发现，德克萨斯州休斯敦的墨西哥籍文盲、不讲英语的工人，尽管该市的建筑很复杂，但始终符合最佳实践劳动生产率标准

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

例如，只有13%的受访者表示他们有兴趣在2016年购买smartwatch，尽管今年推出了备受瞩目的智能手表，但仅比前一年增加了1%。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级We can live a peaceful life despite the various challenges of the modern world.

尽管现代世界面临各种挑战，我们仍能过上和平的生活。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考Despite recent advancements in 3D food printing, the industry has many challenges to overcome.

尽管3D食品印刷最近取得了一些进展，但该行业仍面临许多挑战。

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级Despite the modesty of the benefit, the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups fought it bitterly, describing it as "government-run personnel management" and a "dangerous precedent".

尽管好处不大，但商会和其他商业团体对此进行了激烈的斗争，称之为“政府运作的人事管理”和“危险的先例”。

2010年6月阅读原文

四级Despite being unaware that there were two types of instruction, teachers reported significant motivational changes in 27% of the children in the growth mind-set workshop as compared with only 9% of students in the control group.

尽管不知道有两种类型的教学，但在成长思维定势研讨会上，教师报告27%的孩子在动机上发生了显著变化，而对照组只有9%的学生在动机上发生了变化。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级On the flip side, there are many forced riders, who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.

另一方面，还有许多被迫骑车的人，他们正遭受着气候变化的影响，尽管他们几乎没有造成这个问题。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级American parents, whether rich or poor, have similar expectations of their children despite different ways of parenting.

美国的父母，无论贫富，对他们的孩子有着相似的期望，尽管他们的养育方式不同。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级In the flip side, there are many "forced riders", who are suffering from the climate change impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem.

另一方面，有许多“被迫搭便车者”，他们正遭受气候变化的影响，尽管他们几乎没有对这个问题做出贡献。

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级That seems like common sense, despite the multiple influences on becoming parents.

这似乎是常识，尽管成为父母受到多重影响。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研Despite trade competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every years.

尽管存在贸易竞争和外包，美国制造业每年仍需要取代成千上万退休的婴儿潮一代。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级It is widely consumed despite its ill reputation.

尽管名声不好，它还是被广泛消费。

2013年6月阅读原文

考研If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country's economic prospects?

如果一切进展如此顺利，那么为什么1700多万人投票支持英国脱欧，尽管有人警告英国脱欧会对其国家的经济前景造成什么影响？

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级And despite what you may believe about the limits of your own creative imaginations, we all have the potential to imagine the world in an absolutely new way.

尽管你可能相信你自己创造性想象力的局限性，但我们都有潜力以一种全新的方式想象这个世界。

2012年6月听力原文

六级American universities, despite their global reputation for excellence in teaching, have only begun to demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning.

尽管美国大学在教学方面享有全球声誉，但它们才刚刚开始展示它们在现实世界学习中所能产生的成果。

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

高考Despite the poor service of the hotel, the manager is reluctant to invest in sufficient training for his staff.

尽管旅馆的服务很差，经理还是不愿意为他的员工提供足够的培训。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

高考Despite the serious nature of inspections, they resulted in some funny moments.

尽管检查的性质很严肃，但还是导致了一些有趣的时刻。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考He sensed a great potential in her despite her weaknesses.

尽管她有弱点，他还是感觉到她有很大的潜力。

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

高考This is despite evidence that a dollar spent on risk-reduction saves at least two on reconstruction.

尽管有证据表明，在降低风险上花费一美元至少可以在重建上节省两美元。

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级But despite this, our children are growing up nature-deprived (丧失).

但尽管如此，我们的孩子们在被剥夺自然的环境中成长(丧失).

2010年12月阅读原文

四级Despite the growing importance of computers, however, there will always be a place and need for the personal letter.

尽管计算机的重要性与日俱增，但是，私人信件总会有一席之地和需求。

2010年12月听力原文

六级The report warnsthe picture on wages is likely to get worse this year despite indications of an economic rebound.

报告警告说，尽管有经济反弹的迹象，但今年工资状况可能会变得更糟。

2016年6月听力原文

六级It is worth promoting despite the risks involved.

尽管存在风险，但值得推广。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Despite this problem, many students are still drawn to these institutions—and two-year schools in particular.

尽管存在这一问题，许多学生仍然被吸引到这些机构，特别是两年制学校。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first-generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent.

作为南方的一所旗舰大学，该校第一代学生的毕业率仅为16%，尽管其总体毕业率为71%。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Despite its failure to shatter the glass ceiling,Sweden has one of the most powerful and innovative economies in the world.

尽管未能打破玻璃天花板，但瑞典拥有世界上最强大、最具创新性的经济体之一。

2014年6月阅读原文

六级Our society does not— despite rhetoric(说辞) to the contrary—put much value on raising children.

我们的社会不这样做——尽管言辞华丽(说辞) 相反，我非常重视养育孩子。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级That seems like common sense, despite the multiple influences on becoming parents

这似乎是常识，尽管成为父母受到多重影响

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Despite this fact, many Americans are still strongly opposed to "big government.

尽管如此，许多美国人仍然强烈反对“大政府”。

2012年6月阅读原文

六级Despite complications and concerns, the upsides of sharing can be significant.

尽管存在复杂性和担忧，但分享的好处可能是巨大的。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级Despite this problem, many students are still drawn to these institutions — and two-year schools in particular.

尽管存在这个问题，许多学生仍然被吸引到这些机构，特别是两年制学校。

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

例如，只有13%的受访者表示他们有兴趣在2016年购买smartwatch，尽管今年推出了备受瞩目的智能手表，但仅比前一年增加了1%。

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级The report warns the picture on wages is likely to get worse this year despite indications of an economic rebound.

报告警告说，尽管有经济反弹的迹象，但今年工资状况可能会变得更糟。

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

考研Despite these factors, many social scientists seem reluctant to tackle such problems.

尽管有这些因素，许多社会科学家似乎不愿意解决这些问题。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研Unfortunately, despite 2.5 years in the making, "The Heart of the Matter" never gets to the heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.

不幸的是，尽管经过了2.5年的酝酿，“核心问题”从未触及问题的核心：我们领先的学院和大学的自由教育的不自由性质。

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级” That seems like common sense, despite the multiple influences on becoming parents.

“这似乎是常识，尽管成为父母会受到多种影响。

2013年12月六级考试真题（三）

六级Despite this problem, many students are still drawn to these institutions—and two-year schools in particular.

尽管存在这个问题，许多学生仍然被这些机构所吸引，尤其是两年制学校。

2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题（一）

六级More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 93 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 20 Their data show that only 0.8 percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 20 So, despite all the talk about drone (无人机) deliveries to your doorstep, all the retail executives expressing anxiety over consumers going online, and even a Presidential candidate exclaiming that Amazon has a "huge antitrust problem," the Census data suggest that physical retail is thriving.

在互联网商业开放20多年后，人口普查局告诉我们，20年第一季度实体销售额占零售额的93%。他们的数据显示，2015年初至20年间，只有0.8%的零售额从线下转移到了网上

2019.6六级真题第一套

六级Thus, as the generation assailed by all kinds of digital miracles, we might as well initiatively avoid some of them despite efficiency and comfort they can supply.

因此，当这一代人受到各种数字奇迹的攻击时，我们不妨主动避免其中一些奇迹，尽管它们可以提供效率和舒适度。

2007年12月英语六级真题

六级Despite that, others have voiced a different opinion that a name is relatively insignificant comparing to the efforts a person makes to realize his/her future dream as a person’s fate is dominantly decided by a person himself/herself instead of the name he/she was given at his/her birth.

尽管如此，其他人也表达了不同的观点，即与一个人为实现未来梦想所做的努力相比，一个名字相对微不足道，因为一个人的命运主要由一个人自己决定，而不是由他/她出生时的名字决定。

2009年6月英语六级真题

四级Despite the good new, civil engineers aren’t resting on their successes.

尽管有好的新成果，土木工程师们并没有止步于他们的成功。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Our self-respect is strengthened when we feel accepted by others despite our faults and difficulties.

尽管我们有缺点和困难，但当我们感到被他人接受时，我们的自尊就会得到加强。

2000年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Despite immense differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics that instruct and inspire people.

尽管文化差异巨大，但世界各地的英雄们通常都有许多共同的特点，可以指导和激励人们。

2003年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Despite efforts to get kids more interested in books, the children spent just over an hour a week reading.

尽管努力让孩子们对书更感兴趣，但孩子们每周只花一个多小时阅读。

2003年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Yet, despite the obvious rewards of engaging in office politics—a better job, a raise, praise—many people are still unable—or unwilling—to “play the game.

然而，尽管参与办公室政治有着明显的回报——一份更好的工作、加薪、表扬——但许多人仍然无法——或者不愿意——“玩这个游戏”。

2004年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级And yet we all know people who are filled with joy, despite the unpleasant circumstances of their lives.

然而，我们都知道，尽管生活中有着令人不快的环境，但人们还是充满了欢乐。

2006年12月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级Consider Laura Hillenbrand, who despite an extremely weak body, wrote the best-seller Seabiscuit.

以Laura Hillenbrand为例，她尽管身体极其虚弱，却写出了畅销书《海饼干》。

2006年12月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级Nevertheless, soft-drink companies view bottled water as the next battle-ground for market share—this despite the fact that over 25 percent of bottled water comes from tap water: PepsiCo’s Aquafina and Coca-Cola’s Dasani are both purified tap water rather than spring water.

尽管如此，软饮料公司仍将瓶装水视为下一个争夺市场份额的战场——尽管事实上超过25%的瓶装水来自自来水：百事可乐的Aquafina和可口可乐的Dasani都是纯自来水，而不是泉水。

2006年12月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级Despite that, the majority of mid-aged people and senior citizens uphold the importance of the traditional performance.

尽管如此，大多数中年人和老年人都坚持传统表演的重要性。

2006年12月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级Yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories.

然而，尽管有竞争，我8岁的女儿丽贝卡还是想把业余时间用来写短篇小说。

2007年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级Despite a law designed to protect them, many people with disabling conditions are unaware of their rights.

尽管有一项旨在保护他们的法律，但许多患有残疾的人并不知道自己的权利。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题(3)

四级At my first and last performance review, my boss was amazed that, despite my many capabilities, I hadn’t quite taken control of my responsibilities.

在我的第一次也是最后一次绩效考核中，我的老板很惊讶，尽管我有很多能力，但我并没有完全掌控自己的职责。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题(3)

四级But despite a shining performance at the interview, I felt like a fraud.

尽管我在面试中表现出色，但我还是觉得自己像个骗子。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题(3)

四级Despite the advances of the DDA, there will always be an army of workers who will soldier on, maybe aware of their rights but choosing to remain silent for personal reasons.

尽管DDA取得了进步，但总会有一支工人大军继续战斗，也许他们意识到自己的权利，但出于个人原因选择保持沉默。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题(3)

四级This translates into a sobering (令人清醒的) reality: once we become fat, most of us, despite out best efforts, will probably stay fat.

这转化为发人深省(令人清醒的) 现实：一旦我们变胖了，尽管我们尽了最大的努力，大多数人还是可能保持肥胖。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题(3)

四级Her students’ test scores were high as those in a nearby wealthy school district, despite the obstacles these children faced.

她的学生的考试成绩和附近富裕学区的学生一样高，尽管这些孩子面临着障碍。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题(3)

四级One explanation might be that women, who despite decades of social advances still suffer from economic inequality, discrimination (歧视) and even violence, might have more to cry about.

一种解释可能是，尽管社会进步了几十年，但妇女仍然遭受着经济不平等、歧视(歧视) 甚至暴力，可能还有更多值得哭诉的地方。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级Crying is a nearly universal sign of grief, though some mourners report that, despite genuine sorrow, they cannot shed tears—sometimes even for years after their loved one has gone.

哭泣几乎是一种普遍的悲伤迹象，尽管一些哀悼者报告说，尽管他们真的很悲伤，但他们还是无法流泪——有时甚至在亲人去世后的几年里。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）