1. But people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine.
    但有些人不准时常常因为掐钟点所致，他们常常受到责备，

2. We endeavour to avoid the old, romantic idea of a gusher, which wastes oil and gas.
    我们力图避免那种有关喷油井的陈旧的, 不切实际的计划, 这种计划浪费油和天然气.

3. We endeavour to avoid the old, romantic idea of a gusher, which wastes oil and gas.
    我们尽量避免使用陈旧天真的喷井方法，那样会浪费石油和天然气。

4. While natural gas use increases, use of coal as fuel is decreasing.
    随着天然气利用量的增长，煤炭作为燃料的使用量正在减少。

5. The boy was cutting a branch of a tree with his knife to make a cane.
    这个小男孩正在用一把小刀削一根树枝, 想做根手杖.

6. The exhaustion of gas from a bus polluted the air.
    从公共汽车排出的气体会污染环境。

7. The train cuts through infinite territory, most of it flat and boring, and it seems to me that the ceaseless rhythm of the wheels is like scissors cutting a three-thousand-mile rip through my life.
    列车飞快地穿过茫茫无际的大地——大部分土地平坦，但令人感到厌烦。对我来说，车轮不间断地发出的有节奏的声音就象一把剪刀，咔嚓咔嚓地在我的生命长河中剪出了一条长达 3.000 英里的口子。

8. Natural gas, an outstanding energy fuel, can be used to heat homes, make electricity, and power cars.
    天然气这种优良的能量燃料可以用于家庭取暖、发电和驱动汽车。

9. Here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks.
    这里您可以看到两个工人，他们协力割下了3车金黄色的通心粉秸。

10. He helped with cutting up and studying dead animals, and soon found that this was what he liked doing and was good at.
    亨特帮助哥哥解剖、研究死了的动物。不久他发现这一行当正是自己喜欢做又擅长做的。