1. Something I had always known — the way I knew my skin was the brown color of a nut rubbed repeatedly with a soft cloth, or the way I knew my own name — something I took completely for granted, "the sun is shining, the air is warm" — was not
    某些我一直知道的东西——就象知道自己的皮肤像是用软布反复摩擦后的那种坚果棕色，或者就象知道我自己的名字——某种我完全把它当作理所当然的东西——"阳光灿烂，空气暖和",——居然会并非如此。

2. Some Bavarian people of southern Germany once had a "windowing" custom that took place when young women left their windows open at night so that young men could enter their bedrooms.
    德国南部的某些巴伐利亚人曾经有一种"爬窗"的风俗习惯，年轻女子晚上让窗户开着，这样小伙子就能进入她们卧室。

3. She knew she had to have patience and keep the lines of communication with her daughter open.
    她知道自己得有耐心，得保持自己和桑迪之间沟通的渠道畅通。

4. Some unknown interval of time passes before her eyes open again, only this time there is no response in them, just a blank stare.
    不知过了多长时间，她又睁开了双眼，只是这一次目光里没有任何反应，只有空空的凝视。

5. Still, huge doubt hangs over the company's plans to keep the theme park open through the cold European winter — something no other theme park in Europe has ever attempted.
    公司计划主题公园在欧洲寒冷的冬季仍然开门迎客，此举是否可行仍有疑问--欧洲其他主题公园从未这样做过。

6. Pollution from smoke and dust vitiates the air .
    烟尘的污染使空气污浊。

7. Please put a wedge in the door so that it will stay open.
    请用楔木抵住门, 让它开着。

8. People travelling long distances frequently have to decide whether they would prefer to go by land, sea, or air.
    出远门的人常常需要决定是走旱路、水路，还是坐飞机。

9. Mr.Lin: My wife hopes to open a small handicraft store.
    林先生:我的妻子希望开一家小的手工艺品店,

10. Mainframe computers were very large indeed, often occupying whole air-conditioned rooms,
    计算机主机确实很大，常常占据了装有空调的多间房间，