1. Each demanded some payment that was overdue: twelve shillings for the furniture and oilcloth; one pound four and one penny for the General District and Special Rates; and one pound one and fivepence halfpenny for Poor Rate.
    三封信都是催债的，而且每项款都已经过了期。家具和油布十二先令；统税和特税一镑四先令一便士；济贫税一镑一先令五个半便士。

2. Even his opponents were compelled to admit that he was a man of profound learning: and this not merely in his special field of economics, but also in history, philosophy, and the literature of all countries.
    即使是他的对手们也不得不承认他是一个学识渊博的人：这不仅是指他的经济学专业领域，而且还包括历史、哲学以及各国的文学。

3. Every summer about a dozen journalists gather at a former army training camp north of London to spend the day watching the training of London's special armed police unit.
    每年夏天，总有大约十几名记者聚集在伦敦北部的一个旧军训营，用一整天来观看伦敦特警部队的训练。

4. We make good use of special plastics in place of alloy.
    我们充分利用特种塑料来代替合金。

5. We have special river birthday parties in the summer.
    夏天，我们为这条河举办特殊的生日宴会。

6. When the fire had at last been put out, the forest authorities ordered several tons of a special type of grass-seed which would grow quickly.
    在大火最后被扑灭后，森林管理当局订购了好几吨一种生长迅速的特殊类型的草籽。

7. With scarcely a glance at the items, the clerk sweeps them across an aperture, where a special marking on each item is scanned by a low-powered laser beam inside the machine, connected to a remote computer.
    收款员几乎不看商品，只是把商品从机器上的孔眼处一扫而过，机器里的低能量激光对商品上的一个特殊标志进行扫描，这台扫描机与另一台电脑相联。

8. Without his leadership and special way of thinking, members of the community quickly returned to the traditional marriage of one woman and one man.
    没有了他的领导，没有了他的特殊思维方式，这个社区的成员就很快地恢复了一夫一妻的传统婚姻方式。

9. They intend to bring the men up in a special capsule.
    他们打算用特制容器将他们吊上来。

10. The radioactive material is stored in a special radiation-proof container.
    放射性材料贮存在防辐射的特殊容器内.