1. They had a single aim, a solitary goal----the top!
    他们只有一个目标，唯一的目标 -- 顶峰！

2. The guy next to me wrote his name at the top of the paper.
    坐在我旁边的那个人只在试卷顶端写自己的名字。

3. The surface of his pyramid used to shine with smooth white limestone, and its top came to a sharp point.
    以前，大金字塔表面光滑的白石灰石非常耀眼，塔的顶端很尖。

4. The difference is that Western style decision-making proceeds mostly from top management and often does not consult middle management or the worker while in Japan, ideas can be created at the lowest levels, travel upward through an organization and h
    差别在于，西方式的决策多半源自高层管理人员，通常不征求中层管理人员或员工的意见；而在日本，最底层的人员也能提出想法，然后通过组织上传，对最后的决策产生影响。

5. Two years ago, a 15-member team at the 115-year-old teaching hospital, under pressure to cut costs from a health maintenance organization (HMO), was given permission by the hospital's top manager to find a way to get the tube removed sooner.
    两年前，出于一家保健组织（HMO）要求减少成本的压力，这家有115年历史的教学医院组建了一支15人小组，他们得到医院总经理的许可来研制一种方法，以便尽早去掉导管。

6. Telecommunications is also a key to Shanghai's dream of becoming a top financial center.
    通信工程也是上海实现其成为一流金融中心这一梦想的关键。

7. The opening of Eastern Europe is another prize for the company, which thinks that millions of people will put Disneyland at the top of a list of places to visit on their first trip to Western Europe.
    东欧的开放对迪斯尼来说又是一大收获，他们认为几百万人将会把迪斯尼乐园作为其首次西欧之旅的首选之地。

8. There was a bar hanging from the top of the tower, and I seized it for balance.
    高塔上垂下一根竿，我抓住它以求平衡。

9. The top performers had a network containing a wide range of people.
    表现出色者都有广泛的人际交往关系。

10. He was the man who climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa and dropped various weights from the top,
    他就是那个曾经爬上比萨斜塔，从塔顶向下抛掷积各种重物的人；