由于管理医保制度的缺陷给大众带来了不安（这些缺陷或许是真实的，后于只是假想的），所以人们必然要对健康保健组织的增加仔细审视一番。

The rise of national HMOs surely will invite scrutiny from a nation uneasy with managed care’s failings, real or imagined.

我们现在正处于世纪之交，这是个充满虚情假意的年代；注重时尚的电视节目支持人那矫揉造作的笑容饱含着讥讽，广告商极力欺骗以推销商品。

Here we are in the midst of a deeply cynical, pre-millennium age, where the smirk of every hip TV host is dripping with irony and Madison Avenue sells its products with edge and attitude.

“泰坦尼克号”中善良与邪恶的原型，一对命运不济的情人和扣人心弦的惊险场面，完全与格里菲斯所导演的无声片一样真实可信。

“Titanic’s” archetypes of good and evil, its star-crossed lovers, its handcuffed-to-the –post cliffhangers are as foursquare and primal as anything from a D.W. Griffith silent movie.