请求翻译,这是大学英语精读3的课文部分

1：certainly i don't teach because teaching is easy for me. teaching is the most difficult of the various ways i have attempted to earn my living:mechanic,carpenter,writer.
确实我不是因为教书对我来说太容易才教书。在我曾经以之为生的多种职业中，教书是最难做的一件事，比机械工、木匠、作家都要难。
2: only new york,it seems,attracts this peculiar populace of lone and homeless women who live in an isolated,mistrustful word（这里应该是world） of their own
似乎只有纽约才会吸引这种特殊的人群前来，一群孤独的、无家可归的女人，生活在她们自己那与世隔绝、无信任可言的世界里。
3：he came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and （这里原文有误，更改如此）i saw he looked ill,he was shivering ,his face was white,and he walked slowly as though it ached to move
他进屋来关窗户的时候，我们还仍然在床上。我看见他好像病了，他在发抖，而且脸色苍白，他似乎走动起来很疼但他还是在慢慢的挪动。
麻烦高人帮忙翻译一下以上部分
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take one's time
due
turn....against
complain
commit
at first
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stand a chance
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