1. These objects, however, were different. Lined up against the wall, there were long thin wires attached to metal spheres.
    这些展品却使人大开眼界。靠墙排列着许多细长的电线，而电线又连着金属球。

2. Names become attached to specific images, as anyone who's been called "a plain Jane" or "just an average Joe" can show.
    名字已成为特定形象的组成部分, 任何一个被称为"相貌平常的珍妮"或"普普通通的乔"的人都能证明这一点。

3. No strings attached, and both of us can decide where this goes, if anywhere.”
    不存在什么约束，我们两个人都可以决定这件事该怎样发展--如果能有所发展的话。"

4. His dark eyes shone like polished glass; his arms and legs moved unexpectedly, as if attached to unseen wires.
    他深色的眼睛里闪着光，好似擦亮了的玻璃；他手臂和双腿冷不防地移动着，就好像是连着看不见的电线似的。

5. She was sentimentally attached to this house, for even though it was far too big for her
    她从感情上依恋着这幢房子。纵然，以她的需要来讲房子是太大了。

6. She was sentimentally attached to this house, for even though it was far too big for her needs,
    她对这幢房子在感情上难舍难分。房子实在太大了，

7. So, on his tenth birthday, Johnny goes to the brain-control center. He sits for an hour or so under a machine that looks something like a hair-dryer, with him attached to it.
    所以，约翰尼在10岁生日那天来到了大脑控制中心。他坐在一个形似吹风头罩的机器下面，并和机器连接在一起，就这样坐了一个小时左右。

8. Imagine a pen attached to the weight in such a way that its point rests upon a piece of paper on the floor. Imagine an earthquake shock shaking the floor, the paper, you and your hand.
    假定把一支笔拴在重物上，笔尖落在地板上的一张纸上，假定地震发生了，地板、纸、你和你的手都会动，重物和笔都却不运动。

9. Fuelled by the immense value attached to youth, it has made millions out of vacant promises of renewing faces and bodies.
    青春具有巨大的价值，这大大刺激了美容业，使其得以从它的那些使我们面容、身体焕然一新的空洞许诺中赚了数百万元。

10. For example, when people who fear snakes are shown a picture of a snake, monitors attached to their skin will detect sweat, a sign of anxiety, even though the people say they do not feel fear.
    例如，当怕蛇的人看到蛇的画面时，在他们体表上安放的监控器会测到排汗，这是焦虑的迹象，即使他们说自己并未感到害怕。