1. Audiences in the second decade of the twentieth century found
    生活在20世纪20年代的观众认为，

2. A decade of enquiry has convinced me we can. What separates the average person from Edison, Picasso or even Shakespeare isn't creative capacity. It's the ability to use that capacity by encouraging creative impulses and then acting upon them.
    十年的研究使我确信,我们都能变得那样聪明。普通人与爱迪生、毕加索或者莎士比亚之间的差别不在于创造力,而在于通过激发创造性灵感并将这种灵感付诸实践来利用创造力的能力。

3. Some of us will die sooner, a few will live longer----on into a ninth or tenth decade.
    有些人会死得早一些，少数人寿命会长一些 -- 活到八十几岁或九十几岁，

4. Prices have risen steadily during the past decade.
    过去十年中价格已稳步地上涨。

5. Goleman has brought together a decade's worth of research into how the mind processes feelings.
    戈尔曼将他花了10年的工夫，研究头脑怎样处理感情的结果汇聚成书。

6. Compare that with the mainland of China. Over the next decade, it plans to pour some $100 billion into telecommunications equipment.
    与俄国相比，在未来10年中，中国大陆计划对通信设备投入1,000亿美元。

7. Out of 143 operations in the past decade, 59 patients are still alive.
    在过去十年里接受手术治疗的143位患者中，有59位仍然健在。

8. It may take a decade for many countries in Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe to improve transportation, power supplies, and other utilities.
    亚洲、拉丁美洲和东欧的许多国家也许需要10年的时间来改善其交通、电力供应和其他公用设施。