1. But most of all, he sunk his dishonest gains into this village that captured his heart with its fine stone cottages, its central area of green grass, green rows of hedges, and its fantastic view of rolling fields and pine forests disappearing into th
    但是最主要的，是他将不法收入投进了这座山村。精致的石屋农舍，茵茵的村中绿地，一排排青青的树篱，以及绵延起伏的原野与松林，像古代行进的士兵渐渐消失于远方的地平线上——这一派奇异的景色深深地吸引了他。

2. The Sahara Desert is a natural barrier between North and Central Africa.
    撒哈拉沙漠是北非与中非之间的天然屏障.

3. The Party Central Committee is leading us on the new long march.
    党中央正在领导我们进行新的长征。

4. This Central American country has one of the most ambitious programs in the world to reserve the ecological diversity of its tropical rain forests.
    这个中美洲国家为保护其热带雨林的生态多样性，已制订出世界上最为雄心勃勃的的规划之一。

5. He sees some present models of schooling — community schools and home schooling, for example — becoming more central and other models, not yet existing, may develop.
    他发现一些现存的教育模式——如社区学校和家庭教育——可能会变得更加重要，同时还会形成其他的教育模式，尽管现在还未存在。

6. People tend to live longer in most places. In Central Europe, however, life span is dropping because health care is not what it was a few years ago.
    在大多数地区人们的寿命越来越长。但是在中欧，由于卫生保健不如前几年，因此寿命正在缩短。

7. Central Africa, the most tropical portion of this tropical continent, is a land of heavy rainfall and high plateaus.
    中部非洲是这块热带大陆上最热的地区，雨量充沛，地势很高，

8. Officials point out, for example, that Sleeping Beauty's castle, the central feature of the theme park, is based not on Hollywood, as some might think, but on the illustrations in a medieval European book.
    公司的行政人员指出，例如，睡美人的城堡这个主题公园的中心建筑不是像一些人所想的那样根据好莱坞的作品创造的，而是根据一本欧洲中世纪的书中的插图建造的。

9. It was about midday. I'd left work early in the morning to cash (兑现) a cheque. I walked along to the bank and found there were only about ten or eleven customers in there, a pretty unusual number for those central city banks.
    当时大约是中午时分，为了兑现一张支票，上午我提前下了班。我一路走到银行，发现那儿只有十来个顾客，这个数字对市中心的银行来说是相当不寻常的。

10. For him, schools are an out-of-date concept from the days of the town crier (市政传令员), when it was difficult to get information and a central person was needed to communicate knowledge.
    在他看来，从靠市政传令员口述传达重要信息的时代以后，学校已是过时了。当时人们很难得到信息，因而需要一位重要人士来传递信息。