1. Some people are surprised when they learn of this old custom because they think people of southern Germany followed the Catholic (天主教的) religion, which teach marriage is a holy right given by God in order to create children.
    有些人在得知这个古老的风俗后感到很吃惊，因为他们认为德国南部的人信奉天主教，天主教教导人们: 婚姻是上帝赐给人们生育孩子的一种神圣权利。

2. Since we can't create a 26-hour day we have to decide what things we're going to do."
    由于我们无法让一天有26个小时，所以我们必须确定我们打算做的事情。"

3. So we take some chimpanzees (黑猩猩), or if we really want some strength, some great apes (猿), do a bit of scientific engineering here and there, and we create some animals, which are made for the factory line.
    于是我们利用黑猩猩；如果需要能干力气活儿的，还可利用大猿猴；如果在它们身上哪个部位搞点科学工程，就可以创造出某种动物，让它们去装配线上干活吧。

4. Piles of garbage and raw sewage would create epidemics, perhaps even recurrences of plague.
    一堆堆垃圾和未经处理的污物可能引起流行病，甚至会再发生瘟疫。

5. Reduce comes first for a good reason: It's better not to create waste than to have to figure out what to do with it.
    将"少用"放在第一位有充分的理由：与其绞尽脑汁地思考怎样处理废物，还不如干脆不要制造垃圾。

6. Look at Milton's daughters arranging his cushions and blankets before they silently creep away, so he can create poetry.
    瞧瞧弥尔顿的女儿们：她们为他准备好垫子和毯子，然后蹑手蹑脚地走开，以便他能创作诗歌。

7. If there is one----which I take leave to doubt----then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.
    如果这个问题存在的话 -- 请允许我对此持怀疑态度 -- 那么，这个问题是由老年人而不是青年人造成的。

8. In response, the government has urged local villages to create more shared farmland.
    针对这一情况，政府鼓励当地村庄建立更多的共有农田。

9. I stressed Beijing, hoping that might create some attention.
    我重把北京两个字发得很重，以期引起她们的注意。

10. Instead, it went to create one more British lord.
    然而，它竟被用来制造了又一个英国勋爵。