1. It spins like a top with a stick poked through from top to bottom.
    它转动起来好似从上到下插过一根棍子的陀螺。

2. I had in mind a canoe, such as the natives of those regions make of the trunk of a great tree.
    我心里所想的是一叶独木小舟，就像当地土著人用大树的树干做的那种小舟一样。

3. I felled a cedar tree, and I doubt whether Solomon ever had such a tree for the building of the temple at Jerusalem.
    我砍倒了一棵杉树，心想所罗门在耶路撒冷修建宫殿时恐怕也没有用过这么大的树。

4. It was not without infinite labour that I felled this tree.
    我费了九牛二虎之力才砍倒这棵树。

5. In cities, homes are built on top of one another -- in enormous apartment buildings.
    城里一幢幢巨大的公寓大楼里的每个家都建造在另一个家的顶上。

6. In general, the "21st Century Technology Resources and Commercial Leadership Act", which Sen. John McCain brought to the Senate in late 1999, is designed to keep the U.S. high-tech industry on top by filling the need for skilled technology
    总的说来，参议员约翰·麦凯恩在1999年下半年递交给参议院的"21世纪技术人才资源及商业领导人才法案"是为了填补美国对熟练技术人员的需求, 以保持美国在高科技工业中的领先地位而制订的。

7. I was at the top of my class for two years.
    两年中，我的成绩一直名列前茅。

8. Increases in information and knowledge-based businesses are reducing levels of middle management. Top managers get all the information needed to work together with front-line staff.
    随着以信息和知识为基础的行业的不断增多，中层管理者数量在不断减少。高级管理者掌握着与一线员工协调所需的所有信息。

9. It was a small room, on the sixth and top floor, and scarcely a setting for a romantic figure.
    艾伯特的房间很小，位于6楼，旅馆的顶层，不像是个传奇人物的住处。

10. If you compare it to a mountain, however, the large tree seems small.
    可是将树和山相比，大树就显得小了。