1. It circles round the earth as the earth circles round the sun.
    它像地球绕太阳那样绕地球旋转。

2. It had got round that the leaflets had appeared again.
    大家都传开了，传单又再次出现了。

3. I began to understand that this trip to China was not just for me; it was for my mother, and her father, and his mother.
    我开始意识到这次中国之旅不仅仅是为我自己、也是为我妈妈、她的爸爸和她爸爸的妈妈安排的。

4. I began to turn round to see what he was looking at and at the same moment, the outside bank guard, the one with the machine gun, came flying through the door and lay face down on the floor.
    紧随其后进门的是三个着实令人恐惧的人，他们头上都带着让人恐怖的面罩，还带着枪；至少最前面的一个拿着一支手枪。

5. Forty-two had died on the crossing, which was about average for slavers making the trans-Atlantic trip in those days.
    越过大西洋，死了42人。这个数字不高也不低，那时渡洋运奴的船，走一趟差不多都要死这么多人。