大意是

Perhaps it is about time for you to write to the Sunday Times to Ms. Li Xueying to clarify your conversation with her and get her to apologize of misquoting you.

大意：或者现在是刘博士写信要求海峡星期刊记者 Li Xueying 澄清有关交谈，并且要求为错误报导道歉的时候。

The ice did look thin, and she knew skaters mistrusted it.

冰看起来是很薄，而且她也知道溜冰的人向来对池面的冰不敢大意。

The ice did look thin, and she knew skaters mistrusted it.

水看起来是很薄，而且她也知道溜冰的人向来对池面的冰不敢大意。

Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.

大意：劝君经常想到自己是需要充实的。

What follows is a paraphrasing of my thoughts and discussions about this.

以下是我观点的大意和对它的一些讨论。

Toll: A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.

我认为结合上下文，大意应该是特权费，特许经营费，开采权费等更适合。

There is another question reagarding to the two authors mentioned in the first sentence. The key word is "notwithstanding", which means the two authors were different from historians at their time in that they wrote about the black affluents.

还有1道细节题定位第二段，文章不长总共两段做完感觉暴差，用很多时间做这篇阅读，不保证文章大意的正确，自己做这篇的时候可能太紧张了心定不下来很多选项都是没把握的。

Ubuntu is a Zulu and Xhosa term that roughly means "universal bond of sharing between humans".

Ubuntu是一个祖鲁语和科萨语的术语，大意就是&在人类之间分享的广泛联系&。

The gist of the letter said that his father had passed away, and the oil milling business had collapsed.

去年十二月中，他忽然来了一封信，是从坤甸寄来的，大意说他从父亲死后，油木皇生意失败，家中不能存活，不得已带着妻子来这里当一个教员，已有两年多了。

Last December, a letter from him suddenly appeared, posted from Burma . The gist of the letter said that his father had passed away, and the oil milling business had collapsed. His family could no longer maintain a livelihood and he had no choice but to take his family to Burma where he had been a teacher for more than two years.

去年十二月中，他忽然来了一封信，是从坤甸寄来的，大意说他从父亲死后，油木皇生意失败，家中不能存活，不得已带着妻子来这里当一个教员，已有两年多了。

I didn't watch TV last night, because it .

昨晚我没有看电视，因为电视机坏了。

Since this year, in a lot of villages of Beijing, TV of elevator liquid crystal was removed.

今年以来，在北京的很多小区里，电梯液晶电视被撤了下来。