1. Each teenager is expected to cover his or her own expenses for articles for personal use, entertainment, long-distance telephone calls and clothing. 每个孩子的个人用品、娱乐、长途电话及衣服都得自己掏钱。
2. Eliot says there are people in this world whom he calls "hot reactors". 埃利奥特说在这个世界上有一类他称之为"热核反应堆式的人"。
3. Each week a computer totals the average length of your calls; if it is under 14 minutes, you're in trouble. 每周,电脑会累计你所接听电话的平均长度;如果不到14分钟,你就有麻烦了。
4. But can we blame those who looked and failed to see what Galileo saw, if we remember that to use a telescope at the limit of its powers calls for long experience and intimate familiarity with one´s instrument? 但是,如果我们想到,便用一架倍数有限的望远镜需要长期的经验和对自己仪器的熟悉程度,那么我们怎么能去责备观察了天空但没有看到伽利略所看到的东西的那些人呢?
5. We produce a steady flow of labor-saving devices; we communicate rapidly through faxes, phone calls or emails rather than through personal contacts, 我们发明了一系列节省劳力的装置;我们通过发传真、打电话或发电子邮件与他人迅速地进行交流, 而不是通过直接接触。
6. When a non-star encountered a technical problem, Kelley observed, "he called various technical experts and then waited, wasting time while his calls went unreturned. 凯利评论说,一个成就平平的人碰到技术问题时,"他向各位技术专家求助,然后就等待着。求助无果,他的时间就这么浪费了。
7. The doctor then calls you, her only surviving relative. 于是医生给你打电话,因为你是她惟一在世的亲人。
8. The few remaining working lines will be busy with the calls that naturally occur after a disaster and it will be difficult to call from one part of the city to another. 剩下的为数不多的可用线路会很忙,因为灾难之后自然会有许多电话,要从市里的一个地方打到另一个地方会很困难。
9. Then, rather than trouble to put it in his own handwriting, he calls the girls to come back and write it down while he dictates. 然而他并不自己费神将诗歌写下来,而是唤回女儿们,向她们口述,由她们写下来。
10. The Disney management, which is assembling what it calls a "cast" of 12,000 to run the theme park, 迪斯尼管理层正在为这一主题公园组织一支他们称为"演职人员"的12,000人的队伍。