| 51. | Instead , I saw that they had discovered a new route. |
| 结果却发现它们又找到一条新的路径。
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| 52. | He was, above all, a man who experimented: who despised the prejudices and book learning of the Aristotelians, who put his questions to nature instead of to the ancients, and who drew his conclusions fearlessly. |
| 他首先是个实验工作者，他蔑视亚里士多德学派的偏见和空洞的书本知识。他向自然界而不是向古人提出问题，并大胆地得出结论。
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| 53. | Instead of outwatching the stars, let us visit one at whose beauty the stars grow pale. |
| 我们与其整夜看星星，还不如去拜访一下星星也为之感到逊色的美人。
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| 54. | If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of beng in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around. (Mark Twain, American writer) |
| 如果我们国家的法律中只有某种神灵，而不是殚精竭虑将神灵揉进宪法，总体上来说，法律就会更好。(美国作家 马克·吐温)
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| 55. | In the first place, extra studies bring about unhealthy impacts on physical growth of children. Educational experts point out that, it is equally important to take some sport activities instead of extra studies when children have spent the whole day in a |
| 首先，额外的学习对孩子们的身体发育是不利的。教育专家指出，孩子们在枯燥的教室里呆了一整天后，从事一些体育活动，而不是额外的学习，是非常重要的。
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| 56. | Since it is unnecessary to consider student's routine life, day school can lay stress on teaching instead of other aspects, such as management of dormitory and cafeteria. |
| 由于无需考虑学生的日常生活，日制学校可以将重点放在教学上而不是放在像宿舍和食堂管理这些方面。
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| 57. | There is a growing tendency for parent these days to stay at home to look after their children instead of returning to work earlier. |
| 现在，父亲或母亲留在家里照顾他们的孩子而不愿过早返回工作岗位正成为增加的趋势。
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| 58. | You have spent a whole evening in a French music hall with a dirty-looking fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room. |
| 你和一个看上去脏乎乎的胖子在一家法国音乐厅里消磨了整个晚上，并没有黑眼睛的美人儿悄悄地把情报塞入他的手中，他只不过接了个普通的电话，约定在他房间里会面。
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| 59. | If you can't sign your name, make a cross instead . |
| 你如果不会签名，画一个十字也可以。
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| 60. | Instead of going to New York, we got off at Boston. |
| 我们没去纽约，而是在波斯顿下了车。
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