1. Although scientists still cannot predict earthquakes, they are learning a great deal about how the large plates in the earth's crust move, the stresses between plates, how earthquakes work, and the general probability that a given place will have an
    尽管科学家们仍无法预测地震，但对地壳中的大板块如何移动，板块间的压力如何，地震如何发生，某地区发生地震的一般概率为多少，他们正了解得越来越多。

2. A single tree may seem large compared to a person.
    和人相比，一棵树看起来很大。

3. As they consume these resources without restraint, they also waste large amounts of them.
    他们毫无节制地使用这些资源，因此也造成了大量的浪费。

4. America even has too much garbage dump capacity, thanks to the fact that we have been building large regional dumps to replace older, smaller local dumps.
    美国的垃圾倾卸能力非常强，因为美国人一直在修建大型区域性垃圾场，以取代陈旧的小型地方性垃圾场。

5. As Oona herself was the child of a large family with its own problems, she was well-prepared for the battle that Chaplin's life became as unfounded rumors of Marxist sympathies surrounded them both —
    由于沃娜本人出生在一个被各种麻烦困扰的大家庭，她对卓别林生活中将面临的挑战也做好了充分准备，因为当时有毫无根据的流言说他俩是马克思主义的同情者。

6. "They're seated cross-legged on a rug, dressed in loose white cotton shirts and large black trousers, with fabric around their waists that has been dyed bright red.
    "他们盘着腿坐在小地毯上，身着宽松的白色棉布衬衫和肥大的黑裤，腰系染成鲜红色的布带。

7. You see,” he said, “this room used to be part of a large unit, and the next room used to be the living room.
    你瞧，" 他说，"这间房原是大套房的一部分。隔壁原来是卧室，

8. Stationer: Do you want the large size, or the small size?
    文具商:您要大的还是小的?

9. Soon the errors will have multiplied to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe.
    很快这种偏差会增加到尺10英的范围，如此等等，一直到全球的范围。

10. Some time ago the United States Navy, for instance, examined a very large number of men working on aircraft carriers:
    例如，美国海军前些时候调查了许多在航空母航上工作的人，