1. When one seriously studies the social orders that have had the opportunity to develop autonomously, the figure becomes no more than an exact and matter-of-fact observation.
    当一个人认真地研究自发形成的社会秩序时，杜威的比喻就是他实事求是观察得来的形象化的说法。

2. The experiment needed careful observation.
    这个实验需要细心观察。

3. The key to a solution of that problem lay in an everyday observation.
    可以从我们的日常生活观察中找到这个问题的答案。

4. A burst of activity associated with the laying of submarine cables soon confirmed the Challenger´s observation that many parts of the ocean were two to three miles deep,
    铺设海底电缆的热潮很快证实了"挑战者"号的观察结果：海洋中很多地方可深达两三英里，

5. A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow.
    一两年前，一位年轻的英国作家发表了中肯的看法。他说，初稿是才华，以后各稿是艺术。

6. Stevens makes this observation: "The personal cost of policing has never been so high.
    史蒂文斯这样评论道："警务的人力成本从未如此之高，

7. On Wednesday, a court committed him to a hospital for observation (观察) of his mental condition.
    星期三，法庭押送他到医院做精神状况检查。

8. If parents were prepared for this adolescent reaction, and realized that it was a sign that the child was growing up and developing valuable powers of observation and independent judgment,
    如果家长对青少年的这种反应有思想准备，并且意识到这象征着孩子们正在成熟和正在发展宝贵的观察力、独立判断力，

9. If the term sounds unscientific to 20th-century ears, let us remember there is a definite connection between marshy lands and malaria, and that the naming of the disease itself perhaps represents a praiseworthy effort of observation.
    尽管对20世纪的人来说，“坏空气”一词听起来不科学，我们应该记得沼泽地和疟疾之间有着肯定的联系，因此，“坏空气”一词自身也许代表着一种值得称道的观察。