1. Each demanded some payment that was overdue: twelve shillings for the furniture and oilcloth; one pound four and one penny for the General District and Special Rates; and one pound one and fivepence halfpenny for Poor Rate.
    三封信都是催债的，而且每项款都已经过了期。家具和油布十二先令；统税和特税一镑四先令一便士；济贫税一镑一先令五个半便士。

2. We eat the flesh of animals , birds , and fish.
    我们吃兽类、禽类和鱼类的肉。

3. We did owe nearly a pound, but I´ve been paying it off a little at a time."
    我们确实欠过近一镑的钱，可我一直在一点一点地还。”

4. They offered to pay $10 a pound for the biggest biscuit baked by a listener.
    他们愿意以每磅10美元的价钱买下由听众烘制的最大的饼干。

5. The river swarmed with piranha, the flesh-eating fish that hunted in packs and could easily strip a cow to its bare bones within a minute.
    河里到处都是食肉鱼，这种食肉鱼成群结队觅食，不到一分钟就能把一头牛吃得只剩下一副骨架。

6. Half a pound of coffee.
    半磅咖啡、

7. His flesh, when Kaz touched him, had the soft feel of a boiled tomato.
    和子触摸他时，他身上的肉就像煮过的西红柿一样，软绵绵的。

8. An ounce of prevention is a pound of cure.
    （谚）一分预防相当于十分治疗。

9. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
    一分预防胜似十分治疗。

10. Almost any day a young porpoise may be seen trying to turn a 300-pound sea turtle over by sticking his snout under the edge of his shell and pushing up for dear life.
    几乎每天都可以看到一只小海豚把鼻子顶入一只300磅重的海龟的硬壳下面，拼命地把它翻过来。

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