1. Everyone was curious to see those young men fresh from Europe, still wearing their white linen shirts and striped waistcoats and buckled shoes.
    大家都好奇地看着这两个刚从欧洲来的青年人，他们俩人依然欧洲打扮，身穿雪白细麻衬衣，花条呢背心，带靴扣的皮靴。

2. Before returning home at night, he took a shower and changed back into his suit.
    晚上回家前,他洗个淋浴,又换上他那套西装.

3. Before returning home at night, he took a shower and changed back into his suit.
    晚上回家前，他洗个淋浴，重新换上那身黑色西服。

4. Burglar alarms going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle.
    防盗警报器在白天和黑夜的任何时候都会响起来，它的作用只是骚扰过路行人，而实际上却帮助窃贼入室行窃。

5. But he lives so far away, and it is such a bad night that I have decided to ask you to go instead.
    但是他住得离这儿那么远，天气又这么糟糕，所以我决定请你替我跑一趟。

6. Behind him stood an enormous Russian, about six foot four, in the white coat of a Russian waiter.
    斯大林后面站着一个高大的俄国人，大约有六英尺四英寸高，身穿俄国侍者的白色礼服。

7. But studying my textbooks late at night in the library of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), I would dream, not of India, but of America, the land of opportunity.
    但是, 当我深夜在印度技术学院的图书馆里啃着书本的时候，我脑子经常想的不是印度，而是美国这个机会之国。

8. But why is he a black man? Why is he a Negro male with a worn T-shirt and shining eyes? Why is he not a white man?
    我又想象另一种可能性。当我听见那个声音时，我正带着枪在街上走。那人一定没看见我的枪。

9. Balanced at the edge of a narrow white platform, I am about to jump head first into a hot new phase of Japan's leisure boom: indoor sky diving, without a parachute.
    我在一块窄窄的白色跳板前端站稳，准备头朝下跳出去。这一跳将跳进日本休闲热中的一个崭新的热门项目：室内蹦极跳，不带降落伞的。

10. Who was that blonde I saw you with last night?
    昨晚我看见和你一道的那个金发女郎是谁?