1. `More haste, less speed´ is a well-known paradox.
    ‘欲速不达’是人所熟知的隽语.

2. Enclosed in this outfit, I waited in line for an hour with other adventurers, mostly office workers in their 20's.
    我包裹在这一身装束里，与其他的历险者一起排了一小时队。他们大多是20多岁的办公室职员。

3. Bruce engaged low gear and drove at a terrifying speed.
    布鲁斯接上了低档，开车速度令人害怕；

4. Bruce went into a low gear and drove at a terrifying speed, keeping the front wheels astride the crack as he followed its zigzag course.
    布鲁斯挂上慢档，把两只前轮分别搁在裂缝的两边，顺着弯弯曲曲的裂缝，以发疯的速度向前开去。

5. By working at tremendous speed, the men managed to get the dish on to dry land before the wave returned.
    工人们动作迅速，终于赶在那股大浪返回之前把盘子拽到了岸上。

6. But nothing can match them for speed and comfort.
    但就速度与舒适而言，飞机是无与伦比的。

7. By the time Ben was tired out, Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with; and so on, and so on, hour after hour.
    等到本累垮了，汤姆早已把粉刷权转让给比利·费希尔，换来一只完好的风筝。比利·费希尔干不下去了，约翰尼·米勒把粉刷权买了下来，代价是一只死耗子，和一条甩着玩的绳子。于是买主一个接着一个地来了，时间也一小时又一小时地过去了。

8. But nowadays even, it is not uncommon for a person to be brought back with heart massage (按摩) perhaps a full hour or more after he's "dead."
    但是在今天，一个人在“死亡”整整一小时或更长时间以后，还能靠心脏按摩起死回生，这已不是什么稀罕事了。

9. But only an hour later, he was back.
    但才过了一小时，这司机又返回来了。

10. Why should I get up at this unearthly hour?
    为什么我得这么早起床?