1. Eighteen days after the world´s first heart-transplant operation, Washkansky died of pneumonia at his hospital in Cape Town.
    因为在这次世界首例心脏移植手术后的第十八天，沃什坎斯基在开普顿的一家医院里因肺炎而死去。

2. Eleven cold, rainy days passed. Once he found some animal bones with no meat on them.
    冰冷的雨已经下了整整11天。有一次他发现了一些动物骨头，上面一点肉也没有。

3. Bessie Smith was an incomparable singer in her days.
    贝茜・史密斯在她那个时代是举世无双的歌手。

4. Beyond two or three days, the world´s best weather forecasts are speculative, and beyond six or seven they are worthless.
    世界上最好的两三天以上的天气预报具有很强的猜测性，如果超过六七天，天气预报就没有了任何价值。

5. But 46 days after his operation, Britain´s first heart transplant patient died.
    可是，在手术后的第四十六天，这位首例接受心脏移植手术的英国人离开了人世。

6. But it was several days too short.
    但是他们的计年方法要短好几天。

7. But by that time, an error of about 10 days had again piled up.
    1600年之后，累积出了10天的误差。

8. Back in the good old days of stable economic expansion — the 1950s and 1960s — a person could choose to do something new, exciting, and creative in life but could also choose to say, "That's not for me:
    回顾过去经济平稳发展的好时光--20世纪的50年代和60年代--人们可能会选择生活中某种既新鲜刺激，又有创意的事干，但是也可能会说：

9. Before being allowed to leave the police for medical reasons, they lost between them 12,000 days on sick leave: the equivalent of 50 police officers off the street for a full year.
    在因健康原因而获准退休前，他们共请病假12,000日，相当于50名警员休假一年。

10. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
    5天后，一条油轮从那儿路过，搭救了他们。这二位不得不离开那个荒岛时，还真的感到遗憾呢！