1. The morning I received my passport and exit visa I realized I had less than twenty-four hours to figure out a way of getting my Berlin diaries out.
    拿到护照和离境签证的那天上午，我意识到自己必须在24小时内想出把我的柏林日记弄出去的办法。

2. The Japanese spent $10.9 billion for teaching outside of regular classes last year, according to the institute, including $9 billion on jukus for students in the ninth grade or below — almost double the figure spent seven years ago.
    据该机构调查，去年日本人花在正常课堂教学之外的开支为109亿美元，其中90亿是花在课外学校，用于九年级或九年级以下的学生，这几乎是七年前的两倍。

3. Now more than sixty years old, Barbara — who declines interviews but is said to have loved the doll - may be the most famous unknown figure on the planet.
    如今芭芭拉已有60多岁了，她拒绝接受采访，但据说非常喜欢芭比。她可能是当今世上真名实姓不为人知的最著名的人物。

4. He clearly was the dominating figure at the conference.
    他显然是会议上临驾一切的人物。

5. He knew it; only, he could not figure it out.
    他明知如此，却猜不透。

6. A farm worker, who stayed up all night, claimed to have seen a figure cutting corn in the moonlight.
    有一个彻夜未眠的雇工还声称他看见一个人影在月光下收割庄稼。

7. "I figure there's a sword hanging over their head, and that's pressure," they said.
    "我想他们的头上悬着一把剑，要承受很大的压力，"他们说。

8. "In every case, when you look into the backgrounds of great people, there is this pattern of very early stimulation by a parent or teacher figure," the professor says.
    "在每一个例子里，仔细研究一下天才的成长背景，都可以发现父母或教师给予早期激励这样一种模式，"这位教授说。

9. "The legends and fairy tales which come from Europe figure prominently in the creative development of the theme park."
    "主题公园的创造性发挥突出地表现了欧洲的传说和童话故事，"

10. Since I was a little girl, I've been trying to figure out exactly who "they" are and why the rest of us are supposed to dress just like them.
    打我还是个小女孩起，我一直在设法弄明白"她们"究竟是什么人？为什么其余的人要像她们一样的穿着打扮？