1. Eliot says you can first make a list of 12 things, then cut it down to 6 and set your priorities.
    埃利奥特说，你可以先列出12件事，然后把它压缩到6件，要确定轻重缓急。

2. Beautiful combs, pure tortoiseshell, with jewels set in-just the colour to wear in her beautiful hair.
    多么好看的梳子,纯玳瑁做的,镶着铢宝,颜色恰好配上她那美丽的头发.

3. Business English is simply a set of English vocabulary words; it is not,as some seem to think, a language unto itself.
    商用英文只是一组英文字汇,它并不是如一些人所想,本身自成一种语言.

4. Both these ships set out from Shanghai on June 18th, 1872 on an exciting race to England.
    两船于1872年6月18日同时从上海启航驶往英国，途中展开了一场激烈的比赛。

5. Bonpland set up one of the electrometers to measure the electric discharge, but there was no reading.
    庞普朗安装了一只电表来测量放电量，但电表上没有任何读数。

6. But as we started out, he always said, "You set the pace. I will try to adjust to you."
    但每次出门时，他总说："你按你的步速走，我跟着你。"

7. Because time was short — the patient was dying — the Red Cross man and an officer set out in an army vehicle.
    由于时间紧迫--病人已奄奄一息--红十字会的人和一名军官乘一辆军车出发。

8. But there is a problem for people with free time in a tightly packed country where land is dear:
    但是在一个人口拥挤，土地昂贵的国家，有了闲暇的人们却遇到了这样一个问题：

9. When he smiled he exposed a set of perfect white teeth.
    他笑时露出了一口漂亮的白牙.

10. We must give tribute to all those who helped make this a free country.
    我们必须称颂那些为使这个国家成为自由之邦而出力的人。