Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world;

要不是人类受一些食虫动物的保护，昆虫就会使我们无法在地球上生活下去，

Already, orientals and Asian Americans constitute the majority of the engineering staffs at many Valley firms.

硅谷许多公司中工程技术人员的大多数是东方人和亚裔美国人。

A young man sees a sunset and, unable to understand or to express the emotion that it rouses in him,

一个年轻人看到日落，由于无法理解和表达日落在他心中唤起的激情，

After all, all living creatures live by feeding on something else, whether it be plant or animal, dead or alive, and it is only by chance that such a fate is avoided.

因为一切生物都是靠吃别的东西来活命的，不管这种东西是植物还是动物，死的还是活的，因此，生物偶尔才能避免被吃掉的命运。

It is the ideal condition of the 'equal start' which only our most progressive forms of modern education try to regain.

这就是我们最进步的现代教育试图恢复的“平等起步”的理想状况。

but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it.

可是，好像还有什么东西存在着，不把它捕捉到，作家是不会罢休的。