1. Bejing has invoked the Olympic spirits after the crushing of its hopes to stage the 2000 Games. Gangs of workers spent the weekend putting up thousands of posters promoting a fresh tack(方针):Taking part is the most important thing. The famous phrase of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic, marked the shift in mood after the tears, and not a few recriminations (指责), that followed the International Olympic Committee decision last Thursday. (本题只翻译蓝体字部分。另外此文的背景是1993年北京首次申办奥运会失利。文中出现的Baron Pierre de Coubertin为现代奥运会的创始人德尔.顾拜旦爵士) 2. The people of a small country can certainly defeat aggression by a big country, if only they dare to rise in struggle, dare to take up arms and grasp in their own hands the destiny of their own country.3. The president said at a press conference dominated by questions on yesterday’s election results that he could not explain why the Republicans had suffered such a widespread defeat, which in the end would deprive the Republican Party of long-held superiority in the House.