1. Enclosed in this outfit, I waited in line for an hour with other adventurers, mostly office workers in their 20's.
    我包裹在这一身装束里，与其他的历险者一起排了一小时队。他们大多是20多岁的办公室职员。

2. By the time Ben was tired out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with; and so on, and so on, hour after hour.
    等到本累垮了，汤姆早已把粉刷权转让给比利·费希尔，换来一只完好的风筝。比利·费希尔干不下去了，约翰尼·米勒把粉刷权买了下来，代价是一只死耗子，和一条甩着玩的绳子。于是买主一个接着一个地来了，时间也一小时又一小时地过去了。

3. By comparison, nearly half of male high-school students express their preference for a traditional, male-headed, one provider, nuclear family, where the wife stays home as mother and housewife.
    与此相比, 几乎有一半男中学生表达了他们对传统的、以男人为家长的、只有一个人养家糊口的核心家庭的偏爱，在这种家庭里妻子作为母亲和家庭主妇呆在家里。

4. 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。

5. But for over half of his screen career, Chaplin had no screen voice to confirm his British nationality.
    而在卓别林大半的银幕生涯中，银幕上的他是不出声的，也就无法证明他是英国人。

6. But a single optical fiber with a diameter of less than half a millimeter can carry more information than a large cable made of copper wires.
    但是单单一根直径小于半毫米的光纤电缆就可以比由铜丝制成的粗电缆负载更多的信息。

7. But only an hour later, he was back.
    但才过了一小时，这司机又返回来了。

8. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the table- cloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery .
    你接电话时，小孩把桌布扯下来了，把你最好的陶器打碎了一半.

9. We have been in the institute for five months and a half.
    我们在这个学院已有五个半月了。

10. Why should I get up at this unearthly hour?
    为什么我得这么早起床?