1. Even under a clear blue sky, the village looked forbidding, as all the houses were built of grey mud bricks.
    农舍全用灰色的土坯建成，因此，即使在晴朗的蓝天底下，村庄看上去也会令人感到难以亲近。

2. Earth looks like a big blue marble (玻璃球); from high above the Earth and from the moon, the planet gleams and shines.
    地球看上去就像一个巨大的蓝色玻璃球, 从高高的地球上空或从月球上望去，这颗行星熠熠生辉，闪闪发光。

3. But not one pair of eyes strayed from the history books which twenty-five little girls were studying so earnestly.
    25个小女孩正在认真地学习历史，没有一双眼睛离开课本。

4. But there were times when not a single piece of dry wood could be found and even Humboldt lay with his eyes wide open, listening to the roars of the beasts that surrounded them.
    但也有一块干木也找不到的时候，就连洪堡也睁大了眼睛躺在那里，听着包围他们的野兽的吼叫。

5. But before he smoked cigarettes made by manufacturers -- when he was very young and very poor, with glowing eyes -- he smoked Prince Albert tobacco in cigarettes he rolled himself.
    但是在他开始抽机制卷烟之前——那时他很年轻、也很穷，但眼睛炯炯有神——他抽的是用阿尔伯特亲王牌烟丝自己手工卷制的香烟。

6. But I don't want to. These peaks and valleys, these mountain streams and enormous rocks hurt my eyes; they hurt my soul.
    但是我不想看。这些山峰和峡谷、山中小溪和巨大岩石不但刺痛了我的眼睛，而且还刺痛了我的心。

7. But he brought his American baby girl with him, and a life-style flavoured with American ways.
    但是他把在美国出生、尚在襁褓中的女儿及带有美国情调的生活方式也一起带了回来。

8. But, as I walked out of the garage, KFC chicken in hand, a portly, unshaven young man in a stocking cap and dark nylon jacket emerged from the shrub by the parking pad and put his pistol between my eyes.
    可是当我手里拿着肯德基炸鸡走出车库时，一个肥壮、留着短髭、头戴绒线帽、身穿深色尼龙夹克的年轻人从停车处旁边的灌木丛中钻出来，把手枪顶在我的双眼之间。

9. But why is he a black man? Why is he a Negro male with a worn T-shirt and shining eyes? Why is he not a white man?
    我又想象另一种可能性。当我听见那个声音时，我正带着枪在街上走。那人一定没看见我的枪。

10. But while she was at college, my mother met my father, who was blue-eyed and yellow-haired and not Jewish.
    可是我妈妈上大学时认识了我爸爸。他蓝眼睛，黄头发，而且不是犹太人。