1. Then I got my first call from Teneecia — suicidal(有自杀倾向的) with a recently dead boyfriend.
    不久，我接到了特尼莎打来的第一个电话--她男朋友最近死了，她想自杀。

2. Then Grandma waved at her — the same kind of slow wave a baby makes — and Laurie waved back.
    然后，外婆对她挥了挥手，就像小孩那样慢慢地挥了挥手。劳里也对外婆挥了挥手。

3. Tomorrow my mother will fly back to be with my grandmother.
    明天妈妈就会飞回去陪外婆了。

4. The few remaining working lines will be busy with the calls that naturally occur after a disaster and it will be difficult to call from one part of the city to another.
    剩下的为数不多的可用线路会很忙，因为灾难之后自然会有许多电话，要从市里的一个地方打到另一个地方会很困难。

5. The idea of linking England to the European mainland by tunneling beneath the channel goes back to 1802 when an engineer suggested it to Napoleon.
    用海峡隧道将英国和欧洲大陆连接起来的想法最早可以追溯到1802年，当时是一名工程师向拿破仑提出这一建议的。

6. The hospitals had cut way back on the large amounts of pain-killing drugs usually given during and after surgery that were used primarily to control blood pressure, not pain.
    这些医院削减了原本大量使用的止痛药，这些药通常在手术中和手术后都使用，主要是用来控制血压而不是止疼。

7. There was some talk of having him back during the summer that followed.
    那年夏天，他们有时会谈到再请古韦内尔来种植园一事。

8. To the extent that it is genuine, my caring is not possessive, nor does it hold the other person back.
    真正的爱不是占有，也不是束缚。

9. The first week, a friend stopped by and asked if he could store a trunk in the back of the shop.
    开张第一个星期，有位朋友路过，问能否将他的大皮箱寄存在店铺的后面。"

10. This was my cue to beg. Instead, I talked back.
    她这是在暗示我：得哀求她了。但是我却将她顶了回去。"