1. For most of them, fifty pence is a small price to pay for a nice big bar of chocolate. 对大部分孩子来说,用50便士来买一大块好的巧克力,是算不了什么的。
2. For the first time, the customer can see the transaction recorded — and gets a receipt on which every item he or she has picked out is printed by brand name, its price, even the time of purchase. 顾客首次看到所购物品被登录——还能拿到一张收据,收据上明细地列出他所买商品的商标、价格,就连购买时间也列出。
3. 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?
4. 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。
5. Face it: Cheaters never succeed — and pay a high price when caught. 你必须面对这样一个事实:作弊者决不可能取得成功--而且一旦被发现,就要为此付出沉重的代价。
6. 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。