Reading Excerption (III)

resolve
Such a loss of dignity and descent into childish behavior on the part of the adults deeply shocks the adolescents, and makes them resolve that in future they will not talk to their parents about the places or people they visit.

阐述一个事实和引起的结果
Atomic power is associated in the public mind with the destructive force of atom bombs and partly for this reason, though it is claimed that there is no danger to be associated with atom power stations, they are being sited away from populous centres.

incur
An enterprise has to incur certain costs and expenses in order to stay in business.

to the extent that
The administrative overhead of a business is low to the extent that everyone in the business can be trusted to behave in a way that best promotes the interests of the firm.

拟人
As technology gradually swallows up all forms of work, industrial and agricultural, the rurual areas are going to shrink, just as they have shrunk in Britain, and the vast majority of their people will move into the city.

说明一个两面矛盾的事物
The car also has a curious ambivalence: it creates and then it destroys mobility.

plight
But the plight of the world compels his unwilling attention, and when he sees the human stupidity and greed are about to plunge Europe into chaos and destroy the most glorious civilization which the world has known..

形容概率小
Such extreme cases must probably be taken with a grain of salt, but they do underline the general principle that the relationship between elephant and mahout is the key to successful training.

提出一个困难
But here we come up against the most difficult of all obstacles to contact with other people on other planets.