1. 无人可确切预测未来的财经形势会如何。
Nobody can predict with certainty what the financial future holds.
2. 人们相信拥有计算机技术可以获得更多工作或提升的机会。
People believe that computer skills will enhance their job or promotion opportunities.
3. 尽管这一观点被广泛接受,很少有证据表明教育能够在任何地点、任何年龄进行。
Although this view is widely held, there is little evidence that education can be obtained at any age and at any place.
4. 互联网虽然引起投资人的高度兴趣,但并没有降低投资风险。
But while the Internet has greatly spurred investor interest, it has done little to reduce investment risk.
5. 许多曾经一度高高在上的科技股,股价去年急剧下挫,也再次证实了一句股票投资人不应该忘记的格言:“没有任何事情是百分之百保险的。”
Many once-high-flying tech stocks have nosedived in the past year, proving yet again the maxim that stock investors should never forget: “There aren’t no such thing as a sure thing!”
6. At that precise moment as Dr Hanson Mills was cutting yet another umbilical cord(脐带), other ties were being severed all over town, like the one between a child and a mother who didn't want him to grow up so quickly, or the one between a case of fine wine and a housewife who hadn't wanted to admit she had a problem, or the one between a women and the boyfriend who couldn't forgive her betrayal. The choice to separate from what we love is painful; the only thing worse is when someone we've trusted makes the choice for us。(英译汉)
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