I feel rather ashamed.

我感到很不好意思。

Something may have happened to her.

她可能发生意外了。

Some people think that the weather is unpleasant, the city ugly and dirty, the competition fierce and the streets unsafe.

有些人认为，这儿的气候不佳，市容丑陋肮脏，竞争激烈，街上不安全。

For one thing, when you earn money, you will not have to keep on asking your parents for money.

首先，当自己挣了钱，你就用不着老向父母要钱了。

Perhaps she understood me because she herself had always had very weak eyes.

当我回顾那些岁月时，我深深地为安妮的智慧所打动。她理解我，也许是因为她本向来视力就很弱。

However,in later years there were fierce arguments over land rights and many battles were fought between the settlers and the Maori.

然而后来数年中在移居者与毛利人之间因土地所有权问题产生了激烈的争论，还因此引发了多次战争。