1. But only Charle Chaplin could have created the great comic character of " the Tramp ", the little man in rags who gave his creator permanent fame.
    但只有查理·卓别林才能塑造出了不起的喜剧角色"流浪者"，这个使其创作者声名永驻的衣衫褴褛的小人物。

2. 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。

3. 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。

4. 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。

5. All the same, Chaplin's comic beggar didn't seem all that English or even working class.
    尽管如此，卓别林的喜剧乞丐形象并不那么像英国人，甚至也不像劳动阶级的人。

6. 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。

7. Yet even this painfully-bought self-knowledge found its way into his comic creations.
    然而即使是这种以沉重代价换来的自知之明也在他的喜剧创作中得到了表现。

8. 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。

9. Most funny stories are based on comic situations.
    大部分令人发笑的故事都是根据喜剧情节编写的。

10. He was the kind of comic who used his physical senses to invent his art as he went along.
    他是那种边表演边根据身体感觉去创造艺术的喜剧演员。