根据中国的礼仪，凡有外国客人和中国贵宾来访，都要为他们举行宴会。中国宴会的好坏是用两个因素进行评定的：一是饭菜的质量，二是品种的数量。和西方宴会不同的是，西方宴会一般只有一道主菜，再加上几个配菜；而中国的宴会有上不完的菜：有鱼，有山珍，有肉、菜、蛋以及其它各种炒菜。宴会最先上的是几道装饰得很好看的冷盘。这些冷盘一般相当于西方人的开胃菜。热菜是一道一道随做随上，摆在餐桌的中间。一般普通的宴会有八道菜，而特殊的宴会则更多。

Can he produce evidence in proof to challenge the fact?（选词法）

In point of fact, the question of rightness or wrongness simply does not enter into the dispute.（词类转换法）

She had a heart so large that everybody's griefs and joys found welcome in it.（意义引申法）

You might have made greater progress.（语法角色转换法）

Not infrequently does the septuagenarian walk over a long distance to the Summer Palace.（逆向翻译法）

They ran away as fast as their legs could carry them.（意译法）

Few went out in such a cutting and blinding wind.（拆句法）

Electrical charges of a similar kind repel each other and those that are dissimilar attract.（增译法）

Psychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is undue absorption in the past. It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead. One's thoughts must be directed to the future, and to things about which there is something to be done. This is not always easy; one's own past is a gradually increasing weight. It is easy to think to oneself that one's emotions used to be more vivid than they are, and one's mind more keen. If this is true it should be forgotten, and if it is forgotten it will probably not be true. The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of sucking vigour from its vitality. When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives, and if you continue to be as interested in them as you were when they were young, you are likely to become a burden to them, unless they are unusually callous. I do not mean that one should be without interest in them, but one's interest should be contemplative and, if possible, philanthropic, but not unduly emotional. Animals become indifferent to their young as soon as their young can look after themselves, but human beings, owing to the length of infancy, find this difficult.