1. For the simple reason that I was left with several curiously shaped bits of metal which did not seem to fit anywhere.
    原因很简单，因为还剩下几个形状奇特的零件似乎哪里也装不上去。

2. The elephant is not like a wall, or a spear, or a snake, or a tree; neither is he like a fan.
    大象既不像高墙、长矛、蛇、大树，也不像扇子，

3. The first flush toilet (抽水马桶), the first radio, the first hat with a fan.
    第一个抽水马桶，第一部收音机，第一顶装有扇子的帽子。

4. His answer was to lift the vessel out of the water by making it ride on a cushion of air, no more than one or two feet thick. This is done by a great number of ring-shaped air jets on the bottom of the craft.
    他的解决办法是把船体提离水面，让船在一个气垫上行驶，气垫只有一两英尺厚。船底装上大量环状喷气嘴以实现这一目的。

5. He was a knowledgeable baseball fan and often took me to Ebbets Field to see the Brooklyn Dodgers play.
    他是一个见多识广的棒球迷，常常带着我到埃贝茨球场观看布鲁克林道奇队队员的比赛。

6. An electric fan keeps the air in circulation.
    电扇使空气流通。

7. My cousin, Harry, keeps a large curiously-shaped bottle on permanent display in his study.
    我的堂兄哈里在他的书房里一直摆着一只形状古怪的大瓶子。

8. "He is exactly like a huge fan."
    它实在就像一把巨大的扇子。”

9. Oddly shaped forms that are suspended from the ceiling and move in response to a gust of wind are quite familiar to everybody.
    人们所熟悉的是悬挂在天花板上、造型奇特、随风飘荡的雕塑品。

10. It´s so hot please turn the fan on.
    这么热--请把电扇打开.