由于管理醫保制度的缺陷給大眾帶來了不安（這些缺陷或許是真實的，后于只是假想的），所以人們必然要對健康保健組織的增加仔細審視一番。

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

我們現在正處于世紀之交，這是個充滿虛情假意的年代；注重時尚的電視節目支持人那矯揉造作的笑容飽含著譏諷，廣告商極力欺騙以推銷商品。

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.

“泰坦尼克號”中善良與邪惡的原型，一對命運不濟的情人和扣人心弦的驚險場面，完全與格里菲斯所導演的無聲片一樣真實可信。

“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.