1. By a quirk of fate, Humboldt and Bonpland met Mariano Luis de Urquijo, Prime Minister of Spain, who was able to obtain for them the permission to visit the Spanish empire in South America.
    由于命运的安排，洪堡和庞普朗遇到了西班牙首相乌而吉乔，他可以使他们得到前往南美洲的西班牙帝国去访问的许可。

2. We are planning an outing for next Sunday.
    我们正筹划下星期天出去郊游呢。

3. They are planning to divert the river to supply water somewhere else.
    他们正计划着使这河流转向，以便别处能得到水的供给。

4. Their government granted them permission to leave the country.
    我们的政府批准他们离境。

5. The Japanese are eager to move forward and Westerners, perhaps, lag behind as they take the time for in-depth planning.
    日本人热情十足地往前走，而西方人因需要时间作详细计划，则可能落后。

6. Two years ago, a 15-member team at the 115-year-old teaching hospital, under pressure to cut costs from a health maintenance organization (HMO), was given permission by the hospital's top manager to find a way to get the tube removed sooner.
    两年前，出于一家保健组织（HMO）要求减少成本的压力，这家有115年历史的教学医院组建了一支15人小组，他们得到医院总经理的许可来研制一种方法，以便尽早去掉导管。

7. To test such theories, an institute is planning to take 300 psychics and scientists on a cruise into the triangle.
    为了检验这些理论，有一家机构计划派遣300名通灵人士和科学家前往百慕大三角。

8. No one wanted to take the responsibility for permitting an operation, yet no one would give permission to stop feeding the patient entirely.
    没有人愿意承担允许施行手术的责任，然而也没有人愿意允许完全停止给病人进食。

9. He had spent eighteen years in planning for that wonderful voyage which he made across the Atlantic Ocean.
    为了这次横渡大西洋的惊人航行，他准备了18年。

10. You have my permission to leave.
    我准你离开.