1. How long will the connection of the telephone take?
    安装电话机与总机接通要多长时间?

2. He severed connection with Tom .
    他和汤姆断绝关系。

3. As part of its deal with the Disney organization, the government is laying on and paying for new highways, an extension of Paris's regional express railway and even a direct connection for the high speed TGV railway to the Channel Tunnel.
    作为与迪斯尼公司合作协议的一部分，政府正在铺设新的公路并支付建设款项，它是巴黎地区快速轨道交通的延伸，甚至可直接连接到通往英吉利海峡隧道的高速电气铁路（TGV）。

4. (A companion study showed girls' popularity with their peers was also related to the popularity of their names — although the connection was less clear for boys.)
    （一个与之配套的研究表明：女孩受同龄人欢迎的程度也与她们的名字受欢迎的程度有关系。虽然对男孩来说这种关系不太明显。）

5. There is always something to do in connection with it, from finding the right place for the latest addition, to verifying facts in reference books.
    从为新增添的收藏品寻找摆放位置到核对参考书中的事实，总归有事可做。

6. If the term sounds unscientific to 20th-century ears, let us remember there is a definite connection between marshy lands and malaria, and that the naming of the disease itself perhaps represents a praiseworthy effort of observation.
    尽管对20世纪的人来说，“坏空气”一词听起来不科学，我们应该记得沼泽地和疟疾之间有着肯定的联系，因此，“坏空气”一词自身也许代表着一种值得称道的观察。

7. I was, indeed: the hole that has been surgically cut to drain urine had changed size and the connection to my urine bag was leaking.
    我确实多用了，因为外科手术所造的排尿孔的大小改变了，于是尿袋的连接处发生渗漏。