1. For what, I sometimes wonder; so that she can struggle to breathe through most of her life feeling half her strength, and then die of self-poisoning, as her grandfather did?
    有时我纳闷：自己这样做到底是为了什么? 难道是为了她今后大半辈子有气无力地挣扎着呼吸，然后再像她外公那样自己把自己毒死？

2. For years Sundback lay awake half the night trying to solve the problem. In 1913 he designed a hookless fastener that worked.
    一连几年，森德贝克夜不能寐，试图解决这一问题。1913年，他设计了一种性能理想的无钩扣件。

3. For more than half an hour 38 respectable Brooklyn, New York citizens watched a man attack and stab (刺杀) a woman three separate times.
    在半个多小时的时间里，纽约布鲁克林区38名体面的居民旁观了一名男子三次袭击并最终刺死一名女子的过程。