1. Then a police inspector arrived with a constable and she told them of her discovery of the ransacked flat.
    过了一会儿，一位巡官带着一名警察来了。她向他们讲述了发现公寓遭劫的经过。

2. The inspector then asked the old lady to try to check what was missing by the next day and advised her not to stay alone in the flat for a few nights.
    巡官请老妇人在次日之前设法查清丢了些什么，并劝她几夜之内不要独自一人在公寓过夜。

3. They had only a small flat to live in, but they were happy.
    他们只有一套小小的住房，但是生活很幸福。

4. The train cuts through infinite territory, most of it flat and boring, and it seems to me that the ceaseless rhythm of the wheels is like scissors cutting a three-thousand-mile rip through my life.
    列车飞快地穿过茫茫无际的大地——大部分土地平坦，但令人感到厌烦。对我来说，车轮不间断地发出的有节奏的声音就象一把剪刀，咔嚓咔嚓地在我的生命长河中剪出了一条长达 3.000 英里的口子。

5. They picked up the bank guard who, poor fellow, was still lying flat on the floor. There was a good deal of confusion (混乱).
    门外繁华的街道上生活仍然正常地进行着，我也漫步走回学校。途中我碰到了学校的会计，并平静地向他提及了我刚刚经历了一起银行抢劫案。当然，他非常惊讶，并且问我，"想喝点什么吗？"我说"好的。"

6. He was slowing down; he could only run the kilometer in four minutes flat now, and when he was 80, he could do it in three-fifty.
    他的跑步速度正在减慢。现在他用了4分钟才跑完一公里。而在他80岁时，只需3分50秒就跑完了。

7. As his flat is in a large town, he has no garden of his own.
    他住在大城市里的一所公寓里，没有自己的花园。

8. She had lived in the flat for thirty years and was a veritable magpie at hoarding;
    她在这套房间里已经住了三十年了，而在收藏家私方面，她是个地地道道的收藏者。

9. She gave a flat refusal.
    她断然地拒绝我.

10. She enjoys the solitude of her own flat.
    她喜欢独自在自己的公寓里.