1. The baby is sucking its finger.
    婴儿在吮吸手指。

2. Taking a glass of water from the table, I put my finger over the end of the straw and allow a few drops of the cool moisture to slide into her mouth and ease her thirst.
    我从桌上拿起一杯水，用手指封着吸管的一端，滴了几滴凉凉的水到她的嘴里，以缓解她的干渴。

3. He put his finger in his mouth to show that he needed food.
    他把手指放在嘴里表示他要吃东西。

4. He let Nicky shake his finger, and seemed as though he would like to go on talking.
    他让尼克摇动他的手指，看上去好象他还愿意继续谈下去。

5. Some bamboo is thinner than your little finger. Some is much thicker than your waist.
    某些种类的竹子比小手指还细. 某些则比腰还要粗得多.

6. I gave my finger a prick with a needle.
    我的手指叫针给扎了一下.

7. I am sure the priest himself cannot say such beautiful things as you do, though he lives in a three-storeyed house, and wears a gold ring on his little finger."
    我相信，就连我们的牧师，尽管他住的是三层楼房，小手指上带着 金戒指，也讲不出你这样美妙的话来。”

8. In fact, more than half of all roses are sold in groups of fewer than a dozen, says the Floral Index, a private firm that researches the flower industry.
    据一家名为"花卉指数"的研究花卉业的私人公司指出，事实上，一半以上的玫瑰都不是成打出售的。

9. It is a popular myth that great geniuses — the Einsteins, Picassos and Mozarts of this world — spring up out of nowhere as if touched by the finger of God.
    有一种流行的说法，世界上的伟大天才 -- 爱因斯坦们、毕加索们、莫扎特们，不知从什么地方突然冒了出来，似乎都是造物主的神功使然。