1. Even a telescope in orbit round the earth, like the very successful Hubble telescope, would not be suitable because of the dust particles in our solar system. 即使是一台放置在围绕地球的轨道上的望远镜--如非常成功的哈勃望远镜--也因为太阳系中的尘埃微粒而无法胜任。
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 time you go to a job interview and give them your best and they hire someone else, you go another round with yourself and your self-worth. 每次去求职面试,你都把你主要的优点陈述给他们听,可他们雇佣的却总是别人。你只好带着你自己和你的自尊开始另一轮的求职。
4. Each person generates about 4.4 pounds of garbage a day — a number that has seen steady growth. 每人每天生产的垃圾大约为4.4磅,这一数字仍在持续增长。
5. But, in addition to that basically simple concept, the bank and its customer owe a large number of obligations to one another. 除了这一基本的简单的概念外,银行和储户彼此还需承担大量义务。
6. But other suns, stars as the astronomers call them, are bound to have planets like our own, and as the number of stars in the universe is so vast, this possibility becomes virtual certainty. 但是,其他的太阳,既天文学家所说的恒星,肯定会有像我们地球一样的行星。因为宇宙中恒星的数目极其庞大,所以存在着产生生命星球的这种可能性是肯定无疑的。
7. Because the tree was mentioned in a newspaper, the number of visitors to Frinley has now increased. 就因为报上提到过这棵树,所以现在来弗林利参观的人越来越多。
8. But since then the park has been hit by a number of problems. 但那以后,这个主题公园遇到了一些问题。
9. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. 我们要十分感谢那些吃昆虫的鸟和兽,然而把它们所杀死的昆虫全部加在一起也只相当于蜘蛛所消灭的一小部分。
10. It would be more like that of a bluebottle buzzing round the room; 那就像一只嗡嗡叫的绿头苍蝇在屋内飞行的轨迹,