Module 7

 1、萨姆买不起他极想要那种照相机，因为那相机太贵了。

 sam could not afford (to buy) the camera he longed for because it was too expensive.

 2、整个上午他都在忙惊天动地写那篇故事，只是偶尔停下来喝杯茶。

 he was busy writing the story all the morning, only breaking off occasionally to have some tea.

 3、他是个富人家的儿子，不过看上去已经家道中落了。

 he is the son of a wealthy family, but he seems to have come down in the world.

 4、他常利用她缺乏 (lack) 生意头脑(business sense)而欺骗她。

 he often took advantage of her lack of business sense to cheat her.

 5、王教授，请您赏光来参加我们星期六的英语晚会好吗？

 prof. wang, would you do us a favor by coming to our english evening this saturday?

 6、看外表他一点也不像是个八十多岁的老人。

 he does not seem to be an old man in his eighties, considering his appearance.

 7、他们肯定没打算把他培养成一名工程师，我猜想他们永远也不会这样做。

 undoubtedly they do not have the intention of making an engineer of him, and i suspect they never will.

 8、我怀疑这家工厂什么质量控制也没有。经过一周的观察，我发现情况果真如此。

 i suspected there was no quality control whatsoever in the factory. after making observations for a week i found it was indeed the cases.