1. Even men who can hardly drive a nail in straight are supposed to be born electricians, carpenters, plumbers and mechanics.
    甚至那些连一枚钉子都钉不直的男人都被认为是天生的电工、木匠、水管工和机械师。

2. Eventually, a man speaking broken Polish approaches us, takes us to the ticket window, and then helps us board our train.
    终于,一个操着洋泾浜的波兰语的人走了过来，把我们带到了售票处，并帮我们登上了火车。

3. Bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since decayed away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two s
    碎玻璃块；小线头儿；一扇早已朽败的门上的钥匙；一把锈蚀的刀；一双为某条从来没有、将来也不会有的路而准备的旧鞋；一颗弯折的钉，它所承受过的重量足以弄折任何钉子；一两支干花，仍散发出几许花香。

4. The Russian Tsar would not allow Polish children to study the history of their own country or even their own language.
    俄国沙皇不允许波兰儿童学习本国的历史，甚至不许他们学习本族语言。

5. Quick hands grabbed all the Polish history books off the desks, and hid them away.
    双手敏捷地从课桌上抓起波兰历史课本就藏了起来，

6. He drove in the nail with one stroke of the hammer.
    他铁锤一敲就把钉子钉进去。

7. Haroun Tazieff, the Polish scientist, has spent his lifetime studying active volcanoes and deep caves in all parts of the world.
    波兰科学家哈罗恩.塔捷耶夫花了毕生的精力来研究世界各地的活火山和探洞。

8. He moved all three matches from east to west and said that was what should be done — meaning that much of the new Poland should be carved out of Germany and that the Soviet Union should retain the Polish territory seized on the basis of the Nazi-Sovi
    他把三根火柴全部从东部移到了西部，并且说这就是应该做的事——意思是新波兰的大部分从德国分离出来，苏联应当继续保留根据德苏条约侵占的波兰领土。

9. "So, my little Polish patriot, you do not wish to tell me who rules over us," the Russian inspector said.
    “那么我的波兰小爱国者，你还不想告诉我是谁统治我们，”俄国督学说。

10. These are not the friendly fields, the farmyards of Polish countryside;
    这些田地不象波兰农村的农家场院那样令人感到亲切友好。