1. Taboo is a word from the language of the Fiji Islands that is used to describe something that is forbidden
“禁忌”一词来自斐济群岛的语言，用来描述受到禁止的事。
“that is used to describe something that is forbidden” modifies “a word”.
2. Career planning includes gathering information about ourselves and about occupations, estimating the probable outcomes of various courses of action, and finally , choosing alternatives that we find attractive and feasible.
择业规划包括备齐有关我们以及职业的信息资料，估计各种行动过程中可能出现的结果，最后作出我们认为有吸引力并且可行的选择。
3.Of course, complacency is appropriate for any decision in which nothing much is at stake, but that does not describe career decisions
当然，对于那些不是厉害攸关的决策自满是可以的，但涉及职业方面的决策就不行了。
4.Society no longer attaches the stigma of “instability” to the idea of career hopping, as it once did.
社会已不再像过去那样把跳槽看作是“不安分”的事了。
5.The British Automobile Association, which is concerned with road safety, commissioned research into the relationship between serious accidents and music.
英国汽车协会关注道路安全，它委托进行了一次关于严重车祸与音乐关系的研究。
6. As well as the type of the music affecting road safety, the very fact that we have high-tech music systems built into our car also causes accidents.
和影响交通安全的某种音乐一样，我们给车里安装高科技的音响系统这个事实本身也是引起车祸的原因。 7. The distant sound of low voices, broken now and again by singing, reached Okonkwo from his wives’ huts as each woman and her children told folk stories.
从小木屋里远远传来的低声细语，时不时地被歌声打断，奥康瓦听到了，这是他的妻子们同各自的孩子在讲民间故事。
8. None of the birds had heard of this custom but they knew that Tortoise, in spite of his failings in other areas, was a widely traveled man who knew the customs of different peoples.
鸟儿们谁也没听说过这个习俗，但他们知道，尽管乌龟在其他方面有很多缺点，他却到过很多地方，知晓不同民族的风俗习惯。in spite of 引导让步状语
9.Even top corporate managers, who have mostly affected styles of leadership that can be characterized as tough, cold and aloof, have begun to learn the lesson, and earn the benefits, of writing notes that lift people up.
那些通常古板做作的公司高层经理们，其作风可以被形容为粗暴，冷漠，脱离群众。甚至这些人也开始学习写便函去鼓舞人心，且获益匪浅。
10.And knowing that this sort of marking can sting, I would of course write, onto the end of the paper, something about how I know the student really tried hard, something about his rich imagination or potential for doing well.
由于我懂得这种批改的做法会刺伤他，我当然会在作文的最后写上诸如我是如何了解学生真的很刻苦，他有如何丰富的想象力或他明显表露出的会写好作文的潜力等等。
11。Sometimes I think that these modern fairy tales create as many problems for women as the old stories that had us biding our time for the day our prince would come.
有时我觉得这些现代版童话故事给妇女带来的问题和那些使得我们总是等着王子的到来的古老的故事一样多。
12．They also serve who stand and wait,” wrote the poet John Milton, but he forgot to add that they don’t get to be superwomen that way.
They also serve who stand and wait 相当于They who stand and wait also do service to the society ，其中who stand and wait 是they 的定语从句，被后置。
句中that way相当于 in that way以那样的方式，文中指的是“站着等候”。
那些站着等候的人也在服务社会，诗人约翰 弥尔顿写道。但是他忘记了这些人站着等成不了女强人。
