2. What people call the new Love Family, unfortunately, has replaced a permanent relationship with a new ideal of unlimited choice. 不幸的是,人们称之为 "情爱家庭"的新模式以无约束的选择这一理想化的做法取代了夫妻间长相厮守的关系。
3. We can't really call a friend to say we got a parcel from our sister, or it's getting dark earlier now, or we don't trust that new Supreme Court justice. 我们不会真打电话给一位朋友,告诉他我们收到了姐姐的一个包裹,或者说现在天黑得比较早,或者说我们不信任最高法院新来的法官。
4. The Greens´ wireless telephone is ready for a call. 格林家里的无线电话做好了通话准备.
5. Two main techniques have been used for training elephants, which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle. 驯象有两种主要的方法,我们分别称之为强硬法和温柔法。
6. The spots where the stick would come out we call the poles — the north and south poles. 棍子穿出的两个点我们称之为极点——南极与北极。
7. This air we call the atmosphere. 我们称之为大气层。
8. Today people from the neighborhood, which is made up mostly of expensive one-family homes with the exception of the two apartment houses near the railroad station, find it difficult to explain why they didn't call the police. 该住宅区的居民多住在豪华的独门独户别墅,只有火车站附近有两幢公寓楼。他们都感到很难解释自己当初为何没有报警。
9. The call could last as long as 55 minutes, which (after taking away the two free minutes) translated into a telephone bill of $211.47. 一个电话可能长达55分钟,扣除免费的前两分钟,换算后的话费账单可达211.47美元。
10. Then I got my first call from Teneecia — suicidal(有自杀倾向的) with a recently dead boyfriend. 不久,我接到了特尼莎打来的第一个电话--她男朋友最近死了,她想自杀。