| 41. | Perhaps it is the desire for solitude or the chance of making an unexpected discovery that lures people down to the depths of the earth. |
| 寻求独处的愿望或寻求意外发现的机会的欲望吸引人们来到地下深处。
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| 42. | Perhaps it will solve my problem, but I just haven't had time to read it! |
| 也许这本书能解决我的问题，但我一直还没时间去看这本书！
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| 43. | Things owned for a long time are full associations with the past, perhaps with relatives who are dead, and so they gradually acquire a value beyond their true worth. |
| 东西搁得时间久了，便会充满着与过去岁月的联系，比方说与死去的亲戚有关。因此这些东西慢慢获得了一种超出它本身的价值。
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| 44. | Soon the hobby leads to travel, perhaps to a meeting in another town, possibly a trip abroad in search of a rare specimen, for collectors are not confined to any one country. |
| 用不了多久，有这种爱好的人便开始旅行，也许是去另一个城市参加会议，也可能是出国寻找一件珍品，因为收藏家是不分国籍的。
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| 45. | The EU -- following fine continental traditions -- wants agreement on general principles, which could be applied to many types of products and perhaps extended to other countries. |
| 欧洲人遵循优良的大陆传统，则希望就普遍的原则取得一致，而这些原则适用于许多不同产品，同时可能延伸到其它国家。
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| 46. | If it is not a question of resting the body, then perhaps it is the brain that needs resting? |
| 如果睡眠的功能不是在于使身体得到休息，那么也许是让大脑得以休息？
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| 47. | William S. hart was, perhaps , the greatest of all Western stars, fro unlike Gary Cooper and John Wayne he appeared in nothing but Westerns. |
| 威廉.S.哈特大概是美国西部电影明星中的佼佼者。他和加里.古柏、约翰.韦恩不同，他只在西部电影中扮演角色。
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| 48. | Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century, the strangest of them being perhaps the hovercraft. |
| 本世纪已研制出许多新奇的交通工具，其中最新奇的要数气垫船了。
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| 49. | We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo's spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth; |
| 难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗？如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，
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| 50. | Although perhaps only 1 per cent of the life that has started somewhere will develop into highly complex and intelligent patterns, so vast is the number of planets, that intelligent life is bound to be a natural part of the universe. |
| 虽然在已经产生生命的某个地方，可能只有1%会发展成高度复杂有智力的生命形态，但是行星的数目是那么庞大，有智力的生命必然是宇宙的自然组成道听部分。
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