1. Everybody admires him for his great sense of humour----everybody, that is, except his six-year-old daughter, Jenny.
    人人都钦佩他那绝妙的幽默感 -- 人人，就是说，除他6岁的女儿珍妮之外的每一个人。

2. But a closer study of the evidence, supported by a deeper sense of the period, and particularly by a new consciousness of the philosophical undercurrents in the scientific revolution, has profoundly modified this view of Galileo.
    但是，对那个时代的深化了解，尤其是以科学家革命中哲学潜流的新意识为依据，进一步仔细研究，就会极大地改变对伽利略的看法。

3. But any man with a little sense can see that he is exactly like a rope."
    稍有理性的人就会知道，它很像条绳子。”

4. But the most important argument for a broad education is that in studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages, we improve our moral sense.
    但是赞成宽泛教育的最重要的理由是, 在学习世世代代积累起来的知识的同时，我们也提高了自己的道德感。

5. Besides working to improve building structures, people in areas where earthquakes are common need to prepare for the possibility of a great earthquake.
    除了设法改善建筑结构外，地震频发区的人们也需要为可能发生的大地震做好防备工作。

6. Before we go any further, it might make sense to require a temporary pause on research into human cloning in order to make a systematic enquiry into the grave questions it raises.
    在我们尚未继续前进之前，最好是先要求暂时停止克隆人类的研究，以便系统地研究它所引发的深刻问题。

7. For me and a classmate (and maybe for some who read this account), the experience made a common claim come alive.
    只是，对于我和我的一位同学（也许还有哪些看到这篇报道的人）而言, 这项活动使一个人皆知之的观点变得真真切切了。

8. We waited for news with a growing sense of anxiety.
    我们等待著消息, 越来越焦急.

9. Who could have imagined, in the mid 1970s, for example, that by the end of the 20th century, computers would be as common in people´s homes as TV sets?
    举个例子吧，在20世纪70年代中叶又有谁能想得到在20世纪末的时候，家庭用的计算机会像电视机一样普遍?

10. We came from two entirely different cultures; yet we were connected by a common heritage.
    我们来自两个完全不同的文化，但是共同的血脉把我们连结了起来。