1. They work their eight hours a day, and don't mind the repetition a bit. . . .
    它们每天能做满8小时，而且对于干这种机械重复的活儿一点也不会有怨言。……

2. There’s a story told about a surgical nurse’s assistance during her first day on the medical team at a well-known hospital.
    有这样一个故事，讲的是一位外科护士第一天到一家知名医院的医疗小组协助开刀的故事。

3. The parents agree in writing to meet monthly in one of 20 regional groups, go to a yearly three-day regional retreat, and spend at least three times a year in workshops, discussion groups and seminars at Bath.
    家长签约同意每月出席一次区小组会议（共20个区小组），每年去区休养所三天，每年至少参加三次巴思市的研修班、讨论组和研讨会。

4. The Tokyo Stock Exchange often has between 200 and 300 million transactions a day.
    东京证交所每天通常有2-3亿笔交易。

5. That would ease the pain and help the hospital transfer patients from the intensive (精细的) care area — an area that charges patients or their insurance company $1,600 a day — sooner.
    这将减少病人的痛苦，帮助医院尽早将病人从重病特别护理区转出去——该区向病人或其保险公司每日收取1,600美元。

6. Taxis outside hotels are usually the safest, but also the most expensive for day hires.
    租用宾馆外的出租车一般最可靠，但也最昂贵。

7. Those findings, plus the great genetic distance between present-day Africans and non-Africans, indicate that the split from the African branch is the oldest on the human family tree.
    这些发现，再加上现代非洲人与非非洲人之间的巨大基因差距，说明了从非洲人种群开始的分支是人类家谱上最早的分支。

8. No matter how hard I tried, it was impossible to fill this beautiful pen with ink and to this day it has never written a single word!
    然而不管我如何摆弄，那枝漂亮的钢笔就是吸不进墨水来。直到今天，那枝笔连一个字也没写过！

9. Nobody did. But the next day people kidded him by saying it was the first time any fighter was urged to take a dive before the fight began.
    没有人坐下来和他对打。第二天，人们对他开玩笑，说是第一次听到在人们还没有打起来前，竟会有人要求他们收手。"

10. Nothing says love like a dozen long-stemmed roses on Valentine's Day.
    没有什么比情人节的一束长茎玫瑰更能表达爱情。