1. It was dead silent in the café as Sam walked back to his place behind the counter.
    萨姆回到了柜台后面他的位置，咖啡店里死一般的沉静。

2. In the first place, the time of learning the mother tongue is the most favourable of all, namely, the first years of life.
    首先，学习母语的时间是最有利的，也就是说，是在人生最初的几年里。

3. In the place I had just come from, I always lived in a house, and my house did not have a refrigerator in it.
    在我原先住的地方，我总是住在一幢房子里，但是我那幢房子里没有冰箱。

4. In this stage, you feel excitement about living in a different place, and everything seems to be marvelous.
    在这一阶段里，你会感觉到生活在一个不同国度里很兴奋，而且每一样东西看上去都妙不可言。

5. I had just noticed the place and had turned to my companion, saying, "I've never seen this store. Let's go in."
    那时我刚注意到这个地方并转向我的同伴，对她说："我从未见过这家商店。咱们进去吧。"

6. In the United States, three-quarters of the adults surveyed by the Harris poll and two-thirds of all high-school seniors surveyed by Scholastic magazine say they believe that the United States will be a worse place 10 years from now than it is today.
    在美国，哈里斯民意测验所调查的成人中的四分之三及《中学生》杂志所调查的高中生中的三分之二的人，都说他们认为10年以后美国将变成一个比现在更糟糕的地方。

7. It was midnight by the time they found her place.
    他们找到朋友的住处时已是半夜了。

8. In place of government inactivity, a number of local organizations have emerged.
    鉴于政府行动不力，许多地方组织便应运而生了。

9. It means trying to measure the impact of these forces on contemporary life, and also coming to grips with changes now taking place.
    它意味着试图评估这些因素对现代生活的影响，也意味着把握目前正在发生的变化。

10. If there's one place from which the interference of lawyers and government officials should be barred, it's from the rooms of critically ill patients.
    如果有一个地方应该禁止律师和政府官员的干涉，那就是危在旦夕的病人的房间。