LESSON3

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　　落后于別人 to fall behind others 珍惜時間 to value highly one's time

　　珍惜友誼 to treasure friendship 解決問題 to settle problems

　　完成任務 to complete the task 騰出地方 to make room

　　重視某事 to attach importance to something獲得信息 to obtain information

　　第一印象 the first impression 生活節奏 the pace of life

　　飛騰的物價 soaring prices 做生意 to do one's business 商界 commercial world

　　工程師們深入地討論了方案，一旦開工，工程將進展很順利。

　　The engineers have discussed the plan in depth. Once the project starts， it will be moving ahead smoothly.

　　在過去幾個月，出口額下降了。

　　In the past several months， the export volume fell.

　　他必須把每天經手的文件向公司交代清楚。

　　He has to account to the company for the documents he deals with every day.

　　科學院的部分資深院士提出退休，以便為更年輕有為的科學家騰出位置。

　　Some senior academicians of the Academy of Sciences proposed retirement in order to make room for younger and more promising scientists.

　　政府非常重視保護中國的原始森林。

　　The government attaches great importance to the protection of China's virgin forests.

　　就面積而言，俄羅斯是世界上最大的國家。

　　In terms of area， Russia is the largest country in the world.

　　這所大學正在努力尋找擔任圖書館館長的合適人選。

　　This university is trying to seek out a suitable person for the position of library curator.

　　在當今，不懂電腦便幾乎什么事都辦不成。

　　Today， of you know nothing about computers， you can hardly carry on with anything.

　　你覺得湯姆對馬克完的玩笑感到不高興了嗎？

　　Do you think that Tom took Mark's joke personally？

　　莎士比亞在文學上的成就值得給予高度的贊賞。

　　Shakespeare's achievement in literature in worthy of great praise.

　　我們一直在嘗試一種新的教學方法，目前看來效果還令人滿意。

　　We have been trying a new teaching method and its effects so far seem to be quite satisfying.

　　答應給那哥倆的錢不夠去旅行，他倆只好放棄。

　　Since the money allowed to the two brothers is not enough for tr