1. By using pain-killing drugs that wear off quickly and a simple pain medicine, patients weren't driven into a long sleep and could breathe on their own sooner.
    使用药性消失得快的止痛药和简单的止痛片，病人不会沉睡太久，而且能更快恢复自行呼吸。

2. But because patients no longer remain sleeping logs, nurses get to know them sooner and help them recover, says one team member. "That's nice."
    但是，由于病人不再像木头似地沉睡，护士们能很快熟悉他们，并帮助他们康复起来，一位小组成员说，"这太好了。"

3. We felt sure that sooner or later a stone would rip a hole in our petrol tank or damage the engine.
    我们想念迟早会飞起一个石块把油箱砸开一个窟窿，或者把发动机砸坏。

4. 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。

5. That would ease the pain and help the hospital transfer patients from the intensive (精细的) care area — an area that charges patients or their insurance company $1,600 a day — sooner.
    这将减少病人的痛苦，帮助医院尽早将病人从重病特别护理区转出去——该区向病人或其保险公司每日收取1,600美元。

6. Transferring patients sooner would eliminate the need for additional rooms and beds.
    而早日转出病人则会消除额外病房和额外床位之需。

7. No sooner had she finished reading the poem than students´ questions began pouring in.
    她刚朗诵完，学生们就接连不断地提开了问题。

8. Now we all die, sooner or later; maybe by 2084, we won't die until we are good and ready. And that would be a new freedom indeed.
    现在，我们都会死，只是早晚的事；也许到了2084年，只有当我们准备好了，我们才死。这着实将是一种新的自由。

9. He no sooner recovers his equilibrium than the next porpoise comes along and hits him another crack.
    海龟刚恢复平衡，第二只海豚又冲过来猛击一下。

10. He had no sooner returned than he bought a house and went to live there.
    他刚一回到英国便买下了一幢房子住了进去。