114．From the time when our caveman ancestors gnawed their wild pig bones in front of their smoking fire to our own days when we sit around a table spread with snowy linen and shining silver, we have the history of the change in eating habits from the simple satisfaction of hunger to the meal as a delightful, if rather complex, social institution.

　　[参考译文]从前我们穴居的祖先在烟雾弥漫的篝火前啃咬野猪骨头，其目的只是为了充饥裹腹。今天，我们围坐在铺着雪白桌布，摆着明亮银餐具的餐桌周围进餐，吃饭已变成了一种相当复杂、但又令人愉快的社会习俗。这就是我们饮食习惯变革的历史。

　　115．glance was sufficient to inform the eye that was Susan Hen Chard's grown-up daughter. While life's middle summer had set its hardening mark on the mother's face, her former spring-like specialities were transferred so dexterously by time to the second figure, her child, that the absence of certain facts within her mother's knowledge from the girl's mind would have seemed for the moment, to one reflecting on those facts to be a curious imperfection in Nature's power of continuity.

　　[参考译文]只要瞥一眼就能看出这是苏珊·亨·察德已届豆蔻年华的女儿，当生命的仲夏在母亲的脸庞上留下冷酷的印记，而母亲早年春天般的少女风韵又被“时光”如此巧妙地传递给另一血肉之躯---她的女儿身上，以致母亲所知道的一些家庭隐私，女儿反而茫然 ，这对知道那些内情的人来说，似乎自然的遗传仍有其奇特的缺陷。

　　116． What the New Yorker would find missing is what many outsiders find oppressive and distasteful about New York---its rawness, tension, urgency; its bracing competitiveness; the rigor of its judgment; and the congested, democratic presence of so many other New Yorkers encased in their own world.

　　[参考译文]纽约的粗犷、紧张，那种急迫感和催人奋进的竞争性，它的是非观念的严酷无情，纽约市的那种各色人等熙熙攘攘，兼容并蓄于各自的天地之中的格局，等等这一切都使非纽约人感到厌恶和窒息;而这一切，又正是纽约人所眷恋的。

　　117．Article I of the GATT is the celebrated most favored nation clause under which each member nation must give treatment to other member nations’ imports and exports that is at least as favorable as that applied to the most favored nation.

　　[参考译文]关税及关贸总协定的第一条是著名的最惠国条款，每一个成员国给予其他成员国的进口货物的待遇至少应和给予最惠国的待遇同样的优惠。