美联英语提供：美联英语：我们的性情却更为急躁?（免费英语学习资料）Today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view; 今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘;we spend more,but enjoy less; 我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少;we have bigger houses,but smaller famillies; 我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了;we have more compromises,but less time; 我们妥协更多，时间更少;we have more medicines,but less health; 我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意;we have multiplied out possessions,but reduced out values; 我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了;we talk much,we love only a little,and we hate too much; 我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了;we reached the moon and came back,but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors; 我们可以往返月球，但却难以迈出一步去亲近我们的左邻右舍;we have conquered the uter space,but not our inner space; 我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心;we have highter income,but less morals; 我们的收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了;these are times with more liberty,but less joy; 我们的时代更加自由了，但我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少;we have much more food,but less nutrition; 我们有了更多的食物，但所能得到的营养却越来越少了;these are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home,but divorces increase; 现在每个家庭都可以有双份收入，但离婚的现象越来越多了;these are times of finer houses,but more broken homes; 现在的住房越来越精致，但我们也有了更多破碎的家庭。我们可以养尊处优的时候live a lie: keep sth important about yourself a secret from other people, so that they do not know what you really think, what you are really like, ect 是两面派,过骗人的生活,为人虚伪In the end she found that she couldnt go on living a lie, and told him the truth. 最后,她发现自己无法再蒙骗下去,只得对他说出了真相.live like a king:live in very comfortable surroundings, enjoying all the advantages of being rich 过国王般奢华的生活,过阔绰的生活In this luxury resort, you can live like a king. 在这个奢华的度假胜地,你可以像国王一样生活.One day well be rich, and you and I will live like kings.总有一天我们会发财,那时候我们就可以养尊处优了.force of habit: a tendency always to do things in a certain way because you have always done them in that way 出于习惯,习惯使然I dont know why I check all the locks every time I leave the house. Its force of habit, I suppose. 我不知道为什么每次出门都要把所有的门锁检查一遍,我想是出于习惯吧.*force of circumstance: a situation in which you are forced to do sth by factors beyond your control 迫不得已,情势所逼He claimed he turned to crime through force of circumstance. He hadnt been able to find a job and his family was starving.他声称自己犯罪是迫不得已.他找不到工作,一家人都在挨饿.美联英语：美联英语：www.meten.com