1. Excuse the mess, Jone. This room´s very untidy.
    屋子很乱, 请原谅, 约翰. 这个房间不整洁.

2. Eliza, John and Georgiana were gathered round their mother in the sitting-room.
    起居室里伊丽莎、约翰、乔治安娜簇拥在他们母亲的周围，

3. 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。

4. Evidently, culture shock is something you cannot avoid when living in a foreign country.
    很显然，文化冲击是一种生活在异国他乡的人们无法避免的东西。

5. But can you believe that my first teacher, Mr. Crossett, is still living?
    然而你能相信我的第一个老师克罗塞特先生现在还活着吗?

6. Both the cost and the standard of living were lower before the war.
    战前生活费用和生活水准都比较低.

7. But a watch could never repair itself----it does not consist of living parts, only of metal, which wears away by friction.
    但是，手表决不会自行修理，它不是由有生命的部件组成，而是由金属组成，而金属可以随着磨擦而磨损殆尽。

8. But what surprised me most was to see some of the village people seated on the benches at the end of the room.
    但是最叫我吃惊的是看到教室后面的凳子上坐着好些村民，

9. By building the city both deep into the ground and high above it, there would be room for far more people and everything else than there is in today´s two dimensional city.
    由于这种城市既建在地下深处，又造在地上高空中，所以能容纳的人和其它各种东西会比今天的平面城市多得多。

10. But when I went into his room, a carton of cigarettes in my hand, I discovered the "head waiter" in the uniform of a Major General.
    但是当我手里拿着一盒香烟走进他房间时，我发现那位“侍者领班”穿上了少将的制服。

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