1. Within seconds, a small display unit on the checker´s right shows the name and price of the item; at the same time this information is printed on a strip of paper.
    瞬间功夫，在收款员右手的一个小型显示器上就显示出商品名称、价格，同时这些信息就印在了一张长纸条上。

2. This strip of paper will eventually list everything that the shopper has bought, what each item cost, the total price, the tax, how much money the shopper gave the checker, whether it was cash or a check, and the amount of change the shopper is to re
    这一纸条最终会列出顾客买的每件物品，物品单价、总额、应付税额、顾客实交数额、是现金还是支票、应找回数额。

3. The river swarmed with piranha, the flesh-eating fish that hunted in packs and could easily strip a cow to its bare bones within a minute.
    河里到处都是食肉鱼，这种食肉鱼成群结队觅食，不到一分钟就能把一头牛吃得只剩下一副骨架。

4. Are you going to take your kids to see the cartoon showing in the Shihlin Theater?
    你将带你的小孩去看士林戏院正上演的卡通片吗?

5. After the war, a character called Uncle Sam began appearing in political cartoons, his form evolving from an earlier cartoon character called Brother Jonathan that was popular during the American Revolution.
    战后，政治漫画里开始出现了一个名叫"山姆大叔"的人物。他的原型是一个早期漫画人物，名叫乔纳森大哥，此人在美国独立战争时期非常出名。

6. A cartoon sums up the way many students feel the process works:
    一幅漫画道出了许多学生对这一做法的感受：

7. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost board; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed strip with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a box discouraged.
    他一边叹息，一边拿刷子在桶里蘸了一下，往栅栏高处一抹；接着又一蘸一抹地重复了两遍。他看了一眼刷白的一小条，又看了看那片待刷的无边大陆，垂头丧气地在一只箱子上坐了下来。

8. In Baltimore, a long strip of land (which was used for dumping garbage) is becoming a series of biking and walking trails.
    在巴尔的摩，曾被用来倾倒垃圾的一长条土地正变成一条条自行车道和步行道。

9. I saw a cartoon recently which depicts a group of businessmen looking puzzled as they sit around a conference table;
    最近我看了一部动画片，片子描述了一批坐在会议圆桌周围、看上去迷惑不解的商人。