1. Everything around him was full of her presence, continually reopening the wound.
    他身边的一切都是母亲的影子不断勾起他的伤感。

2. Even then there was a full house.
    即使在那时也是满座。

3. Earth looks like a big blue marble (玻璃球); from high above the Earth and from the moon, the planet gleams and shines.
    地球看上去就像一个巨大的蓝色玻璃球, 从高高的地球上空或从月球上望去，这颗行星熠熠生辉，闪闪发光。

4. Because the Moon has only an eightieth of the Earth´s mass,
    因为月球的重只有地球的1/8，

5. Because the gravity on the Moon´s surface is only a sixth of Earth´s (remember how easily the Apollo astronauts bounded along),
    由于月球表面的重力仅是地球表面的1/6 -- 还记得阿波罗飞船中的宇航员累松地跳跃 --

6. But the copy he gave him had not been written out in full as usual.
    但这回狱卒给贵族的信没有像往常那样把全文写全，

7. But nowadays even, it is not uncommon for a person to be brought back with heart massage (按摩) perhaps a full hour or more after he's "dead."
    但是在今天，一个人在“死亡”整整一小时或更长时间以后，还能靠心脏按摩起死回生，这已不是什么稀罕事了。

8. Before I knew it, though, I slipped into the nanny position almost full time.
    然而不知不觉中，我几乎当起了全职保姆。

9. Before being allowed to leave the police for medical reasons, they lost between them 12,000 days on sick leave: the equivalent of 50 police officers off the street for a full year.
    在因健康原因而获准退休前，他们共请病假12,000日，相当于50名警员休假一年。

10. Full to bursting from yet another home-cooked South Indian dinner.
    又是一顿自家做的南印度风味晚饭，把我们都撑坏了。