1. But I think you understand, my dear Miss Dietrich, that something was wrong from the very beginning.
    不过，亲爱的迪特里希小姐， 我想你明白，这事从一开始就搞错了。

2. But there is a problem for people with free time in a tightly packed country where land is dear:
    但是在一个人口拥挤，土地昂贵的国家，有了闲暇的人们却遇到了这样一个问题：

3. Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dear for it .
    为了求知识，代价虽高也值得。

4. The reader´s hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine, a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.
    当读者到小说最后几页了解到书中女主人公，那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人年轻时一连毒死了她的5个丈夫时，不禁会毛骨悚然。

5. The place was dear to us all.
    这个地方使我们感到亲切。

6. Together, these young men are a kind of river — one that is out of control, eating at the foundations of things we hold dear: our freedom to move about; the fruits of labor; our own lives and those of people we value.
    这些年轻人聚合在一起构成了一条河流--一条已失去控制的河流，这条河流正吞噬着我们所珍视的东西的基础：我们的行动自由；我们的劳动果实；我们的生命，以及那些我们尊敬的人的生命。

7. Do you like it, dear?
    你喜欢吗，亲爱的？

8. Almost any day a young porpoise may be seen trying to turn a 300-pound sea turtle over by sticking his snout under the edge of his shell and pushing up for dear life.
    几乎每天都可以看到一只小海豚把鼻子顶入一只300磅重的海龟的硬壳下面，拼命地把它翻过来。

9. ´Dear me,´ she said. ´Do you always get up so late? It´s one o´clock!´
    "天啊，"她说，"你总是起得这么晚吗？现在已经1点钟了！"

10. ´Oh dear,´ said the conductor suddenly. ´I forgot to put you off.´
    "哎呀，"售票员突然说，"我忘了让您下车了。"