1. But as a woman's power is still strongly perceived to be tied up with the ability to bear children, ageing demonstrates to the world her decline, her uselessness for her primary function.
    但由于女性的本领仍在很大程度上被看作与生育能力密切相关，年龄增长向世人显示的是她的衰老，就她的首要作用而言她已无用了。

2. We tied his feet together with rope.
    我们用绳子把他的双脚捆在一起.

3. Is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.
    就好像他本国语言的总词汇量和自己咿呀学语时他家庭所接纳的他的词汇量之比。

4. When Kizzy was four or five, the African would take her by the hand and lead her round the farm and teach her names of things in his native tongue: one word for tree, another for rock, another for cow.
    当吉西四五岁的时候，老非洲就拉着她的手带她去农场转上一圈，教她用土著语说出各种事物的名称：一个词代表着“树”，一个词代表“岩石”，另一个词代表“母牛”。

5. The bundle of old clothes was insecurely tied.
    这包旧衣服扎得不牢。

6. The impertinent boy put his tongue out at me.
    那个无礼的男孩子对我吐舌头。

7. The robber tied the old lady to a pillar.
    强盗把老太太捆在柱子上。

8. The village seemed deserted, the only sign of life being an ugly-looking black goat on a short length of rope tied to a tree in a field nearby.
    村里似乎无人居住，唯一的生命迹象是附近田里一只面目可憎的黑山羊，用一截短绳拴在一棵树上。

9. There seems to be nothing wrong with his mouth and tongue, but he cannot speak.
    他的嘴和舌好像没有什么毛病，可是却讲不出话来。

10. Then he began to talk to us about the French language, saying that it was the most beautiful tongue in the world, and that we must keep it among us and never forget it.
    然后他开始对我们讲起了法兰西语言。他说法语是世界上最美的语言，我们一定要经常讲，永远不要忘掉。