高考So, always try to live a little bit beyond your abilities—and you'll find your abilities are greater than you ever dreamed.

所以，总是试着活得比你的能力稍高一点，你会发现你的能力比你想象的要大。

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

一年多前，我买了它，因为我的亲戚给了我生日礼物，而不是不合身的衣服。

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级I don’t know about perfecting but they want at least to be able to communicate decently.

我不知道如何完善，但他们至少希望能够进行得体的沟通。

2016年6月听力原文

四级Furthermore, students will be able to purchase sections of the text instead of buying the whole thing, with individual chapters costing as little as $

此外，学生将能够购买课文的各个部分，而不是购买整个内容，每个章节的成本仅为$

2013年6月阅读原文

六级At least taxpayers should be able to decide what students will study on the public dime.

至少纳税人应该能够决定学生将在公共一角硬币上学习什么。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

考研Today's CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many mere skills than simply being able to "run the company" CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and Maybe even how the company should trade in them.

今天的首席执行官，至少对美国的大公司来说，必须具备许多技能，而不仅仅是能够“管理公司”。首席执行官必须对金融市场有很好的认识，甚至可能对公司应该如何交易金融市场有很好的认识。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about environmental problems.

安德森说，在1970年之前，美国人对环境问题几乎一无所知。

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 题设

高考As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders.

作为孩子，我们很少考虑这些教育奇迹。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams.

从这项研究中可以得出的最起码的结论是，公司需要更加认真地思考团队管理问题。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

我们还没有土地伦理，但我们至少已经接近承认鸟类应该作为一种固有权利继续存在的程度，不管我们是否拥有经济优势。

2010年考研翻译原文

高考But a transparent object doesn't absorb or scatter light, at least not very much, light can pass through it without bending or stopping.

但透明物体不会吸收或散射光线，至少不会太多，光线可以通过它而不会弯曲或停止。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

正如您从标题和摘要中所看到的，今天讲座的目的是更详细地探讨中小企业面临的问题，这些问题至少部分是由于必须适应技术的快速发展。

2016年12月听力原文

六级The purpose of today's lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

正如您从标题和摘要中所看到的，今天讲座的目的是更详细地探讨中小企业面临的问题，这些问题至少部分是由于必须适应技术的快速发展。

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研Indeed, there is something a little absurd in the state getting involved in the planning of such a fundamentally "grassroots", concept as community sports associations.

事实上，国家参与社区体育协会这一基本“草根”概念的规划有点荒谬。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

在他们的家庭中，第一个勇敢面对高等教育世界的孩子来到校园时，几乎没有什么学术知识，比同龄人更有可能在毕业前辍学。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

在他们的家庭中，第一个勇敢面对高等教育世界的孩子来到校园时，几乎没有什么学术知识，比同龄人更有可能在毕业前辍学。

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级The trouble is, for many of the researchers who'd like to design systems to address these challenges, massive datasets for experimentation just don't exist—at least, not in formats that are accessible to academic researchers.

问题是，对于许多希望设计系统来应对这些挑战的研究人员来说，用于实验的海量数据集根本不存在，至少没有学术研究人员可以访问的格式。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

考研Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.

学术调查，至少在某些领域，可能需要减少排他性，更加全面。

2011年考研阅读原文

高考The girls on the wesleyan academy softball were waiting for their next turns at bat during practice, stamping their feet to stay warm, eighth-grader Taylor bisbee shivered a little as she watched her teammate Paris white play.

卫斯理学院垒球队的女孩们在练习中等待下一轮击球，跺脚保暖，八年级的泰勒·比斯比看着她的队友巴黎·怀特打球时有点发抖。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考However, a similar study of British accents in the US turned these results upside down and placed some regional accents as the most attractive and BBC english as the least.

然而，一项针对美国英国口音的类似研究将这些结果颠倒过来，将一些地区口音列为最吸引人的口音，而英国广播公司英语则列为最不吸引人的口音。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

我们需要在地球上的大部分地区接受这一事实，因此，很少或根本不经处理的废物将被用于农业，这是有充分理由的。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考It's about time they had to be registered and insured, so when they do hit a pedestrian or a vehicle, or cause an accident, at least they can be treated and there might be an opportunity to claim.

现在是他们必须登记和投保的时候了，所以当他们撞上行人或车辆，或造成事故时，至少他们可以得到治疗，并且可能有机会索赔。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

考研Little reward accompanies duplication and confirmation of what is already known and believed.

对已知和相信的事物的复制和确认几乎没有回报。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研One their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very little of us.

例如，他们自己带着袋子去杂货店，或者放弃塑料吸管，这样做收效甚微，对我们的要求也很低。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

根据几项研究得出的结论，父母比没有孩子的夫妇更不幸福，单亲父母是最不幸福的。

2011年考研阅读原文

高考Another simple way of building some savings is by depositing as little as two percent of your monthly income into a savings account.

另一种简单的储蓄方式是将每月收入的2%存入储蓄账户。

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

六级Newspapers relay daily accounts of goal-setting prevalent in industries and businesses up and down both Wall Street and Main Street , yet there has been surprisingly little research on how the long-trumpeted practice of setting goals may have contributed to the current economic crisis , and unethical （不道德的）behavior in general.

报纸每天都在报道华尔街和主街上下各行各业普遍存在的目标设定情况，但令人惊讶的是，很少有人研究长期鼓吹的目标设定做法是如何导致当前的经济危机的，这是不道德的(不道德的）一般行为。

2012年6月阅读原文

考研6 million patients In 2015 on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patients' rights and their expectations of privacy.

2015年有600万名患者，这是基于一项模糊的协议，该协议对患者的权利及其对隐私的期望考虑得太少。

2018年考研阅读原文

四级But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.

但越来越多的研究表明，一种类型的老年人护理和另一种类型的老年人护理之间的一些区别对住院医生的表现几乎没有实际影响。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos, whether to loved ones, or to some moral concept.

然而，只有当我们对比我们自己的小自我更大的东西做出承诺时，我们才能实现意义，无论是对所爱的人，还是对某些道德观念。

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考It is time you considered that if there were no stress in your life, you would achieve a little.

现在是时候考虑一下，如果你的生活中没有压力，你会取得一些成就。

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

四级In critique, however, we are forced to depart, to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.

然而，在批判中，我们被迫离开，放弃我们认为已经达到的完美，以获得更好的机会。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级When it gets a little boring, I might pull it out," acknowledged Naomi Pugh, a first-year student at Freed- Hardeman University in Henderson, Tenn.

田纳西州亨德森市弗里德-哈德曼大学一年级学生纳奥米·普格承认：“当它变得有点无聊时，我可能会把它拉出来。”。

2013年6月阅读原文

考研For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.

然而，对于一种社会流行病的发生，每个受影响的人都必须影响他或她自己的熟人，而熟人又必须反过来影响他们的熟人，依此类推；而其他人对这些人的关注程度与最初的影响力没有多大关系。

2010年考研阅读原文

高考The little pupil took his grandma by the arm and walked her across the street.

这个小学生拉着奶奶的胳膊，陪她过马路。

2015年高考英语陕西卷 单项填空 原文

四级More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

居住在城市和郊区的人表示，他们想尝试无人驾驶汽车的人数多于居住在农村地区的人。尽管有理由相信人们对自动驾驶汽车的兴趣正在全面上升，但一个人的年龄与自动驾驶汽车如何成为主流没有多大关系。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级While there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

虽然有理由相信人们对自动驾驶汽车的兴趣正在全面上升，但一个人的年龄与自动驾驶汽车如何成为主流没有多大关系。

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Esperanto is used internationally across language boundaries by at least 1 million people, particularly in specialized fields.

世界语在国际上被至少100万人跨语言使用，特别是在专业领域。

2010年6月听力原文

四级Consumers, in the U.S. at least, are acting cautiously with the savings they're getting at the gas pump, as the memory of the recent great recession is still fresh in their mind.

至少在美国，消费者对从加油站获得的储蓄反应谨慎，因为他们对最近的大衰退记忆犹新。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

但有趣的是，我们想知道，我们每周看到的无压力、幸福感增强的父母形象是否在某种小的、潜意识的方式上导致了我们对实际体验的不满，就像我们中的一小部分人希望得到“瑞秋”可能会让我们看起来有点像詹妮弗·安妮斯顿一样。

2011年考研阅读原文

高考They're the little spots of color like throw pillows, mirrors and baskets that most of US used to add visual interest to our rooms.

它们是我们大多数人用来给房间增添视觉趣味的小颜色点，比如抱枕、镜子和篮子。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考In addition, most newspapers had little in them that would appeal to a mass audience.

此外，大多数报纸几乎没有吸引大众的内容。

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级Hospital workers in at least one case deserted their workplace in panic, thus halting the administering of potentially unclean disease spreading injections, but Ebola has not disappeared.

至少有一例患者的医院工作人员惊慌失措地离开了工作场所，从而停止了可能传播不洁疾病的注射，但埃博拉并没有消失。

2013年6月听力原文

六级In a series of several experiments, the researchers illustrated just how much we've come to admire busyness, or at least the appearance of it.

在一系列的实验中，研究人员展示了我们是多么欣赏忙碌，或者至少是忙碌的外表。

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

高考Any child must be accompanied by at least one paying adult.

任何儿童必须由至少一名付费成人陪同。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

四级It is reported that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal What's most surprising is that 36% of them live in households where at least one adult is working.

据报道，4900万美国人不确定下一顿饭在哪里吃。最令人惊讶的是，其中36%的人生活在至少有一名成年人在工作的家庭中。

2012年6月阅读原文

六级So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

那么，在社区层面上，有哪些因素可以预测贫困儿童是否会在成年后的经济阶梯上上升呢？例如，是什么解释了为什么盐湖城大都会区是最有可能给穷人带来财富的100个最大大都会区之一，而亚特兰大大都会区是最不可能的地区之一？哈佛大学经济学家Raj Chetty指出了经济和种族隔离、社区密度、社区中产阶级的规模，学校的质量、社区的宗教信仰和家庭结构，他称之为向上流动的唯一最强关联。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考We require the student's full details at least 4 weeks in advance.

我们要求学生至少提前4周提供详细信息。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel ( ' , 服装) on the basis of utility.

当然，在20世纪30-40年代，这一论点的大部分都被提出了，因为在证明服装的合理性方面几乎没有经验（“，服装) 在效用的基础上。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研First two hours , now three hours—this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight , at least at some major U.airports with increasingly massive security lines.

前两个小时，现在是三个小时——这是当局建议人们提前多少时间赶搭国内航班，至少在美国一些安检线越来越大的主要机场。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研first two hours, now three hours一this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight, at least at some major U.S. airports with increasingly massive security lines.

前两个小时，现在是三个小时一这是当局建议人们提前多少时间赶搭国内航班的建议，至少在美国一些安检线越来越大的主要机场是如此。

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Of course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel on the basis of utility.

当然，在20世纪30-40年代，这一观点的大部分都被提出了，因为在根据效用为服装辩护方面几乎没有经验。

2017年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

科学家们在该杂志上写道，德国的鹳类明显受到了垃圾场的影响，六分之四的鸟类在摩洛哥北部的垃圾堆上越冬，而不是迁徙到萨赫勒。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考Dinner ended only after we had a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts.

直到我们清楚地了解了至少六个这样的事实之后，晚餐才结束。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Like the two little girls growing up at the White House, we made our own beds no one left the house until that was doneand picked up after ourselves.

就像在白宫长大的两个小女孩一样，我们自己铺床。在那之前，没有人会离开家，也没有人会自己收拾。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考One study in America found that students' grades improved a little after the school introduced uniforms.

美国的一项研究发现，在学校推出校服后，学生的成绩略有提高。

2019年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文

六级"We're obligated to keep a pulse on the population for at least five years after the foxes are delisted," says Boser.

博瑟说：“在狐狸被除名后，我们有义务在至少五年内保持对人口的关注。”。

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

六级But I stopped after I showed my wife a little section.

但我给我妻子看了一个小部分后就停了下来。

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

考研After bills, Tony has ￡60 a week to spend, ￡40 of which goes on food, but 10 years ago he was earning ￡130,000 a year working in corporate communications and eating at London's best restaurants at least twice a week.

在比尔之后，托尼￡每周花60英镑，￡其中40个用于食物，但10年前他还在挣钱￡每年有13万人在公司通讯部工作，每周至少在伦敦最好的餐厅就餐两次。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考That isn't a reason to stop, it's just the mind, that little man or woman on your shoulder, trying to talk you out of something again.

这不是停止的理由，这只是思想，你肩上的那个小男人或女人，试图再次说服你放弃某些东西。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级Our customers come in and enjoy their food and drinks, while little rabbits play about and brush against their legs.

我们的顾客进来享用他们的食物和饮料，而小兔子则在他们的腿上玩耍和刷牙。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

四级At the time of the first interview, at least one of the partners was over the age of 50.

在第一次面试时，至少有一位合伙人超过50岁。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

考研In the internet age, at least in theory ,this fraction can be much reduced.

在互联网时代，至少在理论上，这一比例可以大大降低。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研In the internet age, at least in theory, this fraction can be much reduced.

在互联网时代，至少在理论上，这一比例可以大大降低。

2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least

直到20世纪80年代中期，扩大年龄和性别差异成为儿童的主要营销策略，粉红色才完全形成了自己的风格，开始对女孩具有天生的吸引力，至少是女性的一部分

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago.

克里斯是移民的儿子，三年多前开始学习英语。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

大约一个月前，他买了一款流行的文字游戏，游戏中使用了一些小木片，上面有不同的字母。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考Two years ago, while cathy was watching the Olympics, a dream came into her sweet little head—to be a swimmer.

两年前，当凯西在观看奥运会时，一个梦想进入了她可爱的小脑袋，成为一名游泳运动员。

2016年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

四级Peering into the future G) The sharing economy is a little like online shopping, which started in America 15 years ago

展望未来G）共享经济有点像15年前在美国开始的网上购物

2013年12月阅读原文

四级Scientists are in general agreement that the warmer conditions we have been experiencing are at least in part the result of a human-induced global warming trend.

科学家们普遍认为，我们所经历的气候变暖至少在一定程度上是人类引起的全球变暖趋势的结果。

2014年6月阅读原文

高考A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

提前计划一点时间可以节省以后的大量工作。

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 选项

四级You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner.

你只需要提前想一想，重新定义什么是晚餐。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级They did so though while doing little to stop the erosion of available aid.

尽管他们这样做了，但在阻止现有援助流失方面却做得很少。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级"One of the risk factors for premature deaths is the air we breathe, over which individuals have little control," he said.

他说：“我们呼吸的空气是导致过早死亡的危险因素之一，个人对此几乎无法控制。”。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

考研But demanding too much of air travelers or providing too little security in return undermines public support for the process.

但对航空旅客要求太高或提供的安全保障太少会削弱公众对这一过程的支持。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研But demanding too much of air travelers or providing too little security in return undermines public support for process.

但对航空旅客要求太高或提供的安全保障太少会削弱公众对这一过程的支持。

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Prior to the new study, little was known about the risks of getting directly infected by common respiratory viruses, such as the flu or common cold, on an airplane, the researchers said.

研究人员说，在这项新研究之前，人们对在飞机上直接感染常见呼吸道病毒（如流感或普通感冒）的风险知之甚少。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级As a possible home for alien life, it has been voted the planet least likely to succeed.

作为外星生命的可能家园，它被选为最不可能成功的星球。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners, as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing.

教师和学生都经历了一个奇怪的悖论，即初学者通常对自己正在做的事情想得太少，因为他们对自己正在做的事情想得太多。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

高考Most of us, if we know even a little about where our food comes from, understand that every bite put into our mouths was formerly alive.

我们中的大多数人，如果我们对食物的来源知道一点的话，就会明白每一口放进嘴里的东西以前都是活的。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 单项填空 原文

四级As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

就在我考虑这一切的时候，一家受人尊敬的研究公司的新闻稿在我的办公桌旁出现，宣布医疗保险在2008年开发的帮助家庭比较养老院质量的五星级评级体系与居民或其家庭成员的满意度也没有多大关系。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how sa

就在我考虑这一切的时候，一家受人尊敬的研究公司的新闻稿在我的办公桌旁出现，宣布2008年医疗保险为帮助家庭比较养老院质量而开发的五星评级系统与sa的表现也没有多大关系

2016年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研But all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does little to help average people.

但这些政策往往是一种不真诚的美德形式，只让最有特权的人受益，对普通人帮助甚微。

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研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.

一部本土文学戏剧已经诞生，它与公共剧场的联盟已经建立，至少它的一些伟大传统已经开始。

2018年考研翻译原文

高考I'm not suggesting you ignore problems, or that you pretend things are better than they are, but simply that you learn to allow things to be as they are— at least most of the time, and especially when it's not a really big deal.

我不是建议你忽略问题，或者你假装事情比实际情况好，只是建议你学会让事情保持现状——至少在大多数情况下是这样，尤其是当事情不是很严重的时候。

2015年高考英语福建卷 完形填空 原文

六级Perhaps many teachers have too little time to allow students to form and pursue their own questions and too much ground to cover in the curriculum.

也许许多教师的时间太少，无法让学生形成并提出自己的问题，课程中涉及的内容太多。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研Too often we believe that, a new job, bigger house or better car will be the magic silver bullet that will allow us to finally be content, but the reality is these things have little lasting impact on our happiness levels.

我们常常相信，一份新工作、更大的房子或更好的汽车将是让我们最终满足的灵丹妙药，但现实是，这些东西对我们的幸福水平几乎没有持久的影响。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Instead, the claimant receives a time-limited "allowance", conditional on actively seeking a job; no entitlement and no insurance, at ￡71.70 a week, one of the least generous in the EU.

相反，索赔人获得有时限的“津贴”，条件是积极寻找工作；没有权利也没有保险，至少￡每周71.70英镑，是欧盟最不慷慨的之一。

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

同样令人不安的是，我们最年轻的合格选民——18至24岁的选民——的投票率正在大幅下降：即使在全国选举中，也只有四分之一的人参加投票，而18岁的选民首次获得投票时，这一比例几乎是原来的两倍。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

同样令人不安的是，我们最年轻的合格选民——从18岁到24岁——的投票率正在大幅下降：即使在全国选举中，参加投票的选民也只有四分之一多一点，而18岁的选民首次参加giv选举时，这一比例几乎是原来的两倍

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级If I stayed in the U.S., it'd take two years and cost at least 50,000 dollars in tuition alone.

如果我留在美国，需要两年的时间，光是学费就至少要花5万美元。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

四级In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States.

仅在2018年，野火、火山爆发、飓风、泥石流和其他自然灾害就在美国造成了至少490亿美元的损失。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

高考When children are little we make them read aloud, before the teacher and other children, so that we can be sure they "know" all the words they are reading.

当孩子们小的时候，我们让他们在老师和其他孩子面前大声朗读，这样我们就可以确保他们“知道”他们正在读的所有单词。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考Publishers already in business, people who were owners of successful papers, had little desire to change the tradition.

已经经商的出版商，那些拥有成功论文的人，几乎不想改变传统。

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

至少有三个俄罗斯站已经在南极洲运行，这是其挑战美国全球定位系统主导地位的努力的一部分，并且计划在俄罗斯基地等地点建立新的站，位于圣三一东正教的阴影下。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

这一转变在医疗机构之外几乎没有引起注意，但在医疗机构内部已经引起了争议，这表明医生正在开始重新定义自己的角色，从只关心个别患者到对医疗费用的使用施加影响。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Such prox1fgrams can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support.

当然，这样的项目可能会很昂贵，但与已经为那些没有特殊支持几乎没有机会毕业的孩子投资的数百万奖学金和助学金相比，成本很低。

2011年6月阅读原文

六级But the least we should expect is that they do not foster divisions and exclude those who are already disadvantaged.

但我们至少应该期待的是，它们不会助长分裂，也不会排斥那些已经处于不利地位的人。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级If you eat two eggs topped with a little bit of cheese and an orange on the side, you already have 22 grams of protein.

如果你吃两个鸡蛋，上面加一点奶酪和一个橙子，你已经有22克蛋白质了。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare

这一转变在医疗机构之外几乎没有引起注意，但在医疗机构内部已经引起了争议，这表明医生正在开始重新定义自己的角色，从只关注个别患者到对医疗保健方式施加影响

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C