In the old society,five hundred million careworn people _________________ (生活在水深火熱之中).
答案: were plunged into a dire suffering
解析:本題考查考生基本詞匯量和短語(yǔ)的掌握情況。"水深火熱"在英文中沒(méi)有一個(gè)對(duì)等詞,所以要采用意譯法。可以接受的譯法有:a dire suffering,an abyss of suffering,extreme misery。Be plunged into表示"使......陷入,使......遭受",如:plunge a country into war(使一個(gè)國(guó)家陷入戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng));plunge sb. into deep sorrow(使某人陷入深深的悲痛之中)。另外,前半句中careworn意為"受折磨的,飽經(jīng)憂患的"。