1. An individual human existence should be like a river----small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.
    个人的存在应该像一条河流，开始很小，被紧紧地夹在两岸中间，接着热情奔放地冲过巨石，飞下瀑布。

2. She asked them to discuss if the poem contained any message.
    她让学生们讨论一下这首诗有无含义，

3. Carlyle was entirely ignorant of what the bottle in his pocket contained,
    卡莱尔不知道药瓶子里装的是什么药，

4. But contained a large number of beautifully preserved frescoes as well.
    而且还有大量保存完好的壁画。

5. But the inspector found a dirty red bundle that contained jewellery which the old lady said was not hers.
    却发现了一个装有珠宝的、肮脏的红包袱。老妇人说那不是她的。

6. Charles Laveran, a French physician stationed in Algeria and later a Nobel laureate, took blood from a patient ill with malaria, and after two years of careful work (1878-1880) found that it contained tiny organisms under his powerful microscope.
    一位在阿尔及利亚工作站工作的名叫查尔斯·拉弗兰的法国医生——后来的诺贝尔奖金获得者——从一名疟疾患者身上抽取了血液。经过两年的仔细工作（1878—1880），在他的高倍显微镜下面发现里面含有微小的生物有机体。

7. If you were to ask Harry what was in the bottle, he would tell you that it contained perfumed mud.
    如果你要问哈里瓶里是什么，他会告诉你瓶里装的是芳香泥。

8. In the centre of the hall, there were a number of tall structures which contained coloured lights.
    展厅中央是装有彩色灯泡的许多高高的构件，

9. It contained $300 in pennies.
    口袋里面装着300镑的便士。

10. In another chest, which contained the belongings of a ship´s officer,
    另一只海底沉箱中装的是船上一位军官的财物，