1. After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick, they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney.
    他们凿透了18英寸厚的墙壁，发现有个人卡在烟囱里。

2. And all around the earth is a blanket of air, many miles thick.
    地球四周是一层许多英里厚的空气，

3. A snake slipped quickly out of his path, its body as thick as an arm.
    一条蛇快速从他走的路径上游开，蛇体有胳膊粗。

4. And even though I couldn't completely understand what she was saying in her thick Beijing accent, I knew — the same way I knew what my mother had been trying to tell me before I left.
    我有限的、结结巴巴的汉语无法表达我的复杂感情。虽然我不能完全理解她用浓重的北京口音说出来的话，我却能理解她的意思--就像我理解我妈妈在我动身之前努力讲给我听的事情一样。

5. She never found anything, but there was always a thick pile of forms to fill out at the end of each visit, accounting for every penny.
    她从来都是一无所获，但最后我总要填厚厚的一叠表格，说明每一分钱的来历。

6. Many of these trees are in our rain forests where thick areas of plants and trees, home for many birds and animals, are disappearing.
    遭受砍伐的这些树木许多是热带雨林中的树木，那里茂密的植物和树木原本是许多鸟类和动物的家园，现在却正在消失。

7. It was the middle of winter.Snow lay thick on the ground.
    当时，正值隆冬季节.厚雪铺盖着大地。

8. It was the middle of winter. Snow lay thick on the ground.
    此时正值隆冬季节，地上积着厚厚的雪。