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. But this afternoon, she is drinking tea in the garden.
    但今天下午, 她正在花园里喝茶.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Before they were replaced by steamships, sailing vessels like the Cutty Sark were used to carry tea from China and wool from Australia.
    在蒸汽船取代帆船之前。"卡蒂萨克"号之类的帆船被用来从中国运回茶叶，从澳大利亚运回羊毛。

6. 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。

7. By this time her legs were beginning to tremble, so she sat down and accepted a cup of very strong tea, while he telephoned the police.
    这时她两腿累得开始发抖，于是坐了下来，喝了一杯浓茶。与此同时，看门的人给警察挂了电话。

8. But this afternoon, she is drinking tea in the garden.
    但今天下午，她正在花园里喝茶。

9. 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。

10. 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。"