1. Eliot says you can first make a list of 12 things, then cut it down to 6 and set your priorities.
    埃利奥特说，你可以先列出12件事，然后把它压缩到6件，要确定轻重缓急。

2. But people who are cut off not only from foreign tourists, but even from their own countrymen can be hostile to travellers.
    但是，那些不但与外国旅游者隔绝，而且与本国同胞隔绝的人们有可能对游客抱有敌意。

3. But before the Suez Canal was cut in 1869, Asia was also linked to Africa.
    而在这条苏伊士运河1869年开凿之前，亚洲与非洲也是连在一起的。

4. Bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since decayed away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two s
    碎玻璃块；小线头儿；一扇早已朽败的门上的钥匙；一把锈蚀的刀；一双为某条从来没有、将来也不会有的路而准备的旧鞋；一颗弯折的钉，它所承受过的重量足以弄折任何钉子；一两支干花，仍散发出几许花香。

5. Will the cut leave a scar?
    这伤口能留下疤痕吗?

6. We were cut off by the tide.
    我们让潮水截住了.

7. We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo´s spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;
    如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，

8. Without machinery, the ancient Egyptians cut and moved and lifted each of these stones.
    古埃及人是在没有机械装备的情况下，开采、搬运和抬起每一块石头的。

9. We budget it, save it, waste it, steal it, kill it, cut it, account for it; we also charge for it. It is a precious resource.
    我们安排时间、节约时间、浪费时间、挤抢时间、消磨时间、缩减时间、对时间的使用作出解释; 我们还要因时间而收取费用。时间是一种宝贵的资源。

10. The blood had congealed round the cut on her knee.
    血液在她的膝盖伤口周围凝固了.