1. We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo´s spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;
    如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，

2. We would lay less stress on ´facts and figures´ and more on a good memory, on applied psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens.
    人们不会重视1资料和数据´，而靠好记性、实用心理学与同伴相处的能力。

3. What the child cannot forgive is the parent´s refusal to admit these charges if the child knows them to be true.
    孩子们所不能原谅的是：父母错了，孩子们也看出来了，可是做父母的还不肯承认。

4. It requires 97 per cent less energy to travel the quarter of a million miles from the Moon to Earth-orbit than the 200 mile-journey from Earth´s surface into orbit!
    因此，从月球到地球的25万英里所消耗的能量要比从地球表面进入地球轨道的200英里所耗能量少97%。

5. While Alfred´s little army slowly began to gather at Athelney, the king himself set out to penetrate the camp of Guthrum, the commander of the Danish invaders.
    阿尔弗雷德人数不多的军队开始在阿塞尔纳慢慢集结时，他亲自潜入丹麦入侵司令官古瑟罗姆的营地。

6. While they were talking it began to rain and Dimitri stayed in Aleko´s house until the rain stopped.
    就在他俩说话的时候，天下起了雨，迪米特里便呆在阿列科家里避雨，一直等到雨停为止。

7. We might say that justice has been done when a man´s innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt.
    当某人被证据确凿地证明无罪的时候，我们也许会说正义得到了伸张。

8. When we use a phrase like ´it serves him right´,
    当我们说"他罪有应得"这句话的时候，

9. When he denied the train´s existence, I borrowed his copy of the timetable.
    他说根本没有这趟车。于是我借他本人的列车时刻表，

10. Who could have imagined, in the mid 1970s, for example, that by the end of the 20th century, computers would be as common in people´s homes as TV sets?
    举个例子吧，在20世纪70年代中叶又有谁能想得到在20世纪末的时候，家庭用的计算机会像电视机一样普遍?