1. While attending secondary school, Engelbreit sold dozens of hand-drawn cards to a local shop for 25 cents a piece — her first venture into art and commerce.
    上中学时，恩格尔布赖特将几十张手绘的贺卡以每张25美分的价格卖给当地的一家商店，这是她第一次涉足艺术和商业领域。

2. The king retired to his chamber.
    国王回到他的房里休息了。

3. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) favors a code of conduct that would ban the giving and seeking of bribes.
    国际商会（ICC）赞成用行为准则来禁止行贿索贿。

4. A few months later, a couple of almost comic body-thieves stole his body from the family burial chamber and held it for money: the police recovered it with more efficiency than Mack Sennett's clumsy Keystone Cops would have done.
    几个月后，几个近乎可笑的盗尸者从他的家庭墓室盗走了他的尸体以借此诈钱。警方追回了他的尸体，其效率比麦克·塞纳特拍摄的启斯东喜剧片中的笨拙警察要高得多。

5. Commerce has stagnated.
    商业停滞不前。

6. Inside our clear chamber, we were warm and comfortable, but outside was a whole different world.
    坐在透明的机舱内，我们觉得温暖而舒适，然而外面却是一个截然不同的世界。