1. His answer was to lift the vessel out of the water by making it ride on a cushion of air, no more than one or two feet thick. This is done by a great number of ring-shaped air jets on the bottom of the craft.
    他的解决办法是把船体提离水面，让船在一个气垫上行驶，气垫只有一两英尺厚。船底装上大量环状喷气嘴以实现这一目的。

2. He must, for example, perceive an egg as a simple single solid shape, quite apart from its significance as food, or from the literary idea that it will become a bird.
    以鸟蛋为例。观赏者必须感觉到它是一个单一的实体形态，而完全不靠它的食用意义或它会变成鸟这样的文字概念来感觉。

3. "Mom" is not right, because the woman or women who supplied the egg and gave birth to the infant would more appropriately be called Mother.
    称呼"妈妈"不正确，因为提供卵子并生下婴孩的女子才更有资格被称为母亲。

4. My cousin, Harry, keeps a large curiously-shaped bottle on permanent display in his study.
    我的堂兄哈里在他的书房里一直摆着一只形状古怪的大瓶子。

5. Columbus made no answer; but after a while he took an egg from a dish and said to the guests, "Who among you, gentlemen, can make this egg stand on end?"
    哥伦布没有答话。过了一会儿，他从盘子里拿出个鸡蛋对宾客们说：“诸位，你们谁能把这只鸡蛋竖起来？”

6. (The only exceptions are egg and sperm cells, each of which contains half the genes to grow a new individual.)
    （惟一的例外是卵子和精子细胞，它们的每个细胞分别含有长成新个体的一半基因。）

7. Oddly shaped forms that are suspended from the ceiling and move in response to a gust of wind are quite familiar to everybody.
    人们所熟悉的是悬挂在天花板上、造型奇特、随风飘荡的雕塑品。