1·But mixing drinks doesn't actually make you more drunk, or give you a worse hangover. It's all down to the total amount of ethanol (the proper name for alcohol) you have consumed.
事实上，混合饮用酒精饮料并不会增添你的醉意，也不会让你的宿醉反应更严重。醉酒的程度全归咎于乙醇(酒精的学名)的摄入总量。
2·Drunk driving fatalities have declined more than 10 percent over the past 10 years.
醉酒驾车死亡事故在过去的10年里已下降了10%以上。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Taxes on alcohol make it more expensive to get drunk, which reduces excessive drinking and impaired driving.
对酒的征税使得人们醉酒的代价更高，从而减少了过度饮酒和酒后驾驶的行为。
4·A stolen car is also far more likely to be involved in an accident than the same car driven by its owner; car thieves are often young and sometimes drunk.
一辆被盗的车比由车主驾驶的同样的车更容易发生事故；偷车贼通常是年轻人，有时还喝醉了酒。
5·They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies.
它们的范围从故意损坏物品的小案件到更严重的罪行，如涉及酒驾的车祸或抢劫银行。
6·They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies.
它们的范围从故意损坏物品的小案件到更严重的罪行，如涉及酒驾的车祸或抢劫银行。
7·More than drunk driving, the biggest single cause of car accidents today is driver distraction: taking your mind or eyes off the road, or your hands off the wheel.
时下导致车祸的最大原因并非是酒后驾驶，而是驾驶员注意力分散，也就是说驾驶员的脑子或眼睛并没有紧盯着路况，或者手离开了方向盘。
8·No more: what about a great barbecue outside, with pulsating hearts on the grill and everybody getting drunk with kegs of Kali Ma’s blood!
不用多说，就在外面设一个巨大的烧烤架上面烤着跳动的心脏。 每个人都被主教的鲜血灌得酩酊大醉。
9·People who are drunk might be more aggressive or have mood swings.
醉酒的人可能更具有攻击性，或者情绪波动。
10·Almost one third of interviewees said they drank too much because they had a bad day or week and 31% said they got drunk to make them feel more confident.
而将原因归咎于自己在某一天或某一周内过得不顺心的人则占到了三分之一，另有31%的人宣称其醉酒是为了让自己感到更有信心。