1. Except for one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix, which had rapidly become popular,
    除了泽曼特和夏蒙尼等一两个很快出了名的地方外，

2. Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
    两百多年前，拳击比赛在英国是非常盛行的。

3. Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
    两百多年前，拳击比赛在英国是非常盛行的。

4. But, contrary to a popular assumption, it is far from being the only one, or even the greatest.
    但是，和一般的看法相反，这决非是仅有的，甚至不是最主要的动机。

5. Boxing matches were very popular in England two hundred years ago.
    两百年前，拳击比赛在英国非常盛行。

6. Believe it or not, 91/2 is the most popular size.
    信不信由你，最普通的尺码竟然是 9.5 号。

7. But its most popular attraction is the tall tower where I lined up.
    不过那儿最吸引人的还是这个我排队登上的高塔。

8. We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo´s spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;
    如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，

9. The Chinese Mao Tai wine is popular all over the world.
    中国的茅台酒闻名全世界。

10. Today, although the old Galileo lives on in many popular writings, among historians of science a new and more sophisticated picture has emerged.
    今天，虽然已故的伽利略继续活在许多通俗读物中，但在科学史家中间，一个新的更加复杂的伽利略形象出现了。