1. As a great many people will be visiting the country, the government will be building new hotels, an immense stadium, and a new Olympic-standard swimming pool.
    由于将有大批的人到我们国家来，所以政府准备建造一些新的饭店、一个大型体育场和一个新的奥运会标准游泳池。

2. At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles, children become expert at holding their breath under water even before they can walk.
    在洛杉矶的一个特设的游泳池里，孩子们甚至在还没有学会走路时就已经能熟练地在水下屏住呼吸了。

3. Some children can cover the whole length of the pool without coming up for breath even once.
    有些孩子能够跑完游泳池的全长而不用露出水面换气。

4. Our next obstacle was a shallow pool of water about half a mile across.
    下一个障碍是一片约半英里宽的浅水塘。

5. Which they found was caused by a small waterspout shooting down into a pool from the roof of the cave.
    后来他们发现这是由山洞顶部的一个小孔里喷出的水柱跌落到水潭中发出的声音。

6. Which a predecessor of ours at the farm built in the meadow hard by the deepest pool for swimming and diving.
    那船坞是农场一位前辈在一块草地上盖的，草地紧挨着一个专供游泳、跳水的深水池。

7. It is not long before they are so accustomed to swimming that they can pick up weights from the floor of the pool.
    他们很快便适应了游泳，以致能捡起池底的物品。

8. Initially, I felt embarrassment. I wanted to hide, to get out of the pool without anyone seeing me.
    开始时我觉得很尴尬。想藏起来，想离开游泳池，而又不让别人发现。

9. I might have endangered other divers' lives if I had spilled blood in the pool. For what I knew — that few others knew — was that I was HIV-positive.
    要是我的血溅到了游泳池里，就会危及其他跳水选手的生命。因为我知道--而其他很少有人知道--我是阳性艾滋病毒携带者。