1. Something I had always known — the way I knew my skin was the brown color of a nut rubbed repeatedly with a soft cloth, or the way I knew my own name — something I took completely for granted, "the sun is shining, the air is warm" — was not
    某些我一直知道的东西——就象知道自己的皮肤像是用软布反复摩擦后的那种坚果棕色，或者就象知道我自己的名字——某种我完全把它当作理所当然的东西——"阳光灿烂，空气暖和",——居然会并非如此。

2. She shyly extended both hands toward him, the brass fingernails shining in the overhead light.
    她害羞地将两只手伸向他，黄铜指甲在头顶射下的灯光下闪闪发光。

3. But the sun is shining.
    但阳光灿烂。

4. Clouds hung over our air base, but I knew that soon I would be above the clouds, where the sun was shining.
    此时云层正笼罩在我们空军基地的上空，但我知道，很快我将升至云端之上，那里阳光灿烂。

5. One morning he woke up beside a river. Slowly he followed it with his eyes and saw it emptying into a shining sea.
    一天早上, 他在河边醒来。他的目光慢慢追随着那条河流，直到它汇入了波光闪烁的大海中。

6. Let s go out while the sun is shining.
    趁还有太阳的时候我们出去吧！

7. It had a head like a horse, big blue eyes, shining silver skin, and a bright red tail.
    它长着一个像马一样的头，有着大的蓝眼睛和闪闪发光的银色皮肤，还有一条鲜红色的尾巴。

8. It was all wrong. The sun was shining but the air was cold. It was the middle of January, after all.
    可我又觉得什么都不对劲。虽然阳光灿烂，但是空气却是冰冷的。毕竟这还是一月中旬啊。