1. But her teammate almost dropped it. Wilma had to stop to get a good hold on the stick.
    但是她的队员已经掉了, 威尔玛不得不停下来抓住接力棒。

2. But suppose the earth could be covered with sensors spaced one foot apart, rising at one-foot intervals all the way to the top of the atmosphere.
    假设地球上可以布满传感器，每个相隔1英尺，并按1英尺的间隔从地面一直排列到大气层的顶端。

3. By 12.01, those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away.
    到12：01时，那些波动就已经会在1英尺远的地方造成偏差。

4. Bagrit foresaw a time when computers would be small enough to hold in the hand,
    巴格瑞特预示有一天计算机可以小到拿在手上，

5. Behind him stood an enormous Russian, about six foot four, in the white coat of a Russian waiter.
    斯大林后面站着一个高大的俄国人，大约有六英尺四英寸高，身穿俄国侍者的白色礼服。

6. Born June 5, 1952, in St. Louis, the oldest of three daughters, she started drawing almost as soon as she could hold a pencil.
    恩格尔布赖特1952年6月5日出生在圣路易斯，是三姐妹中的老大，她几乎刚学会拿铅笔就开始画画。

7. We decided to hold the meeting in the hall.
    我们决定在大厅里开会。

8. Worry is a spasm of the emotion; the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go.
    烦恼是感情的一阵发作；脑子被某件事纠缠着而又抛不开它。

9. With the hand held high in the air, hold the string so that the weight nearly touches the ground.
    把手高高举在空中握住绳子，让重物几乎接触地面。

10. Without the air to hold some of the sun´s heat, the earth would be freezing cold at night, too cold for us to live. 2
    如果没有空气储存大部分太阳热量，地球在夜晚就会冻得冰冷，人们便无法生存。