1. Eighteen days after the world´s first heart-transplant operation, Washkansky died of pneumonia at his hospital in Cape Town.
    因为在这次世界首例心脏移植手术后的第十八天，沃什坎斯基在开普顿的一家医院里因肺炎而死去。

2. Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo´s telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse´s great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?
    某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空；到了19世纪40年代，有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗？

3. When I was only eighteen months old, I started gym classes. At ten, I explored doing gym exercises off the diving board at the pool.
    我18个月大的时候便开始接受体操训练。十岁时我便在游泳池的跳板上练体操。

4. There are eighteen apples in the basket.
    筐里有十八个苹果.

5. Next week Joe came home and put another eighteen dollars on the table.
    第二个星期，乔先回到家，又拿出18美元放到桌上。

6. He had had a long and uncomfortable trip, for he had been confined to the wooden box for over eighteen hours.
    他经历了一次漫长而又难受的旅程，因为他在那木箱里闷了18个多小时。

7. He had spent eighteen years in planning for that wonderful voyage which he made across the Atlantic Ocean.
    为了这次横渡大西洋的惊人航行，他准备了18年。

8. Admittedly it was an unusual pie dish, for it was eighteen feet long and six feet wide.
    不可否认，这并非寻常的馅饼盘，它长为18英尺，宽为6英尺。

9. After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick, they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney.
    他们凿透了18英寸厚的墙壁，发现有个人卡在烟囱里。

10. Admittedly it was an unusual pie dish, for it was eighteen feet long and six feet wide.
    这个馅饼盘子确实少见，有18英尺长，6英尺宽。