1. ´I´m going to Woodford Green,´ I said to the conductor as I got on the bus, ´but I don´t know where it is.´
    "我要去伍德福德草地，"我一上车就对售票员说，"但我不知道它在那儿。"

2. ´It couldn´t be better, Gloria,´ Brinksley Meers agreed. ´No newspaper men, no film fans! Why don´t we come more often?´
    "是再好不过的了，格格利亚。"布林克斯利.米尔斯表示同意，"没有记者，没有影迷！我们为什么不经常来这里呢？"

3. ´Look, sheriff,´ said Rockwall, ´don´t be too hard on us. I´m Rockwall Slinger and this is Merlin Greeves.´
    "好了，好了，司法官，"罗克沃尔说，"别使我们难堪。我是罗克沃尔.斯林格，这位是默林.格里夫斯。"

4. Accurate, don´t you think?
    真够准的，是不是？

5. ´I don´t know,´ I answered,
    "我不知道"，我回答说，

6. ´Don´t drive so quickly! You´re not Billy Stewart!´
    "别开得这样快！你可不是比利.斯图尔特！"

7. At San Fernando, Humboldt´s party was joined by a Spaniard, Don Nicolas Sotto, brother-in-law of the provincial governor.
    在圣费尔南多，洪堡的队伍里又加入了一位名叫唐·尼西拉·索托的西班牙人，他是省长的妹夫。

8. After a while, I shrink into a silent indifference, and I don't want to look at the landscape anymore;
    过了一会儿，我蜷缩成一团，一声不吭，对什么都不感兴趣，我再也不想看窗外那些景色了。

9. And so begins yet another segment of this longest journey — all the longer because we don't exactly know when it will end, when we'll reach our destination.
    这样就开始了我们经历过的最漫长的旅程中的又一段路程——说它漫长，是因为我们既不能确切地知道它究竟什么时候才是个尽头，也不知道我们何时才能到达目的地。

10. "Maybe our children will have some problems, but whose children don't?
    "也许我们的孩子会遇到一些问题。但谁的孩子不会呢？