1. It was not until nearly 200 years later that England found it necessary to drop 11 days from the calendar to bring it in line. 直到大约200年以后,英国才发现有必要从日历中去掉11天来取齐。
2. I found him pleasant and considerate and his personal touch made our association agreeable. 我发现他友善而且很体谅他人,他本人的风格使我们的交往很愉快。
3. It would not have been very important if he had merely found plasmodium parasites in the tiny stomach, but the parasites were multiplying — suggesting that the mosquito´s stomach was one of their natural homes. 如果在蚊子微小的腹内他只是发现了疟原虫寄生虫,这个发现还不是个很重要的发现,但是寄生虫在繁殖——这就意味着蚊子的腹内是它们的一个自然之家。
4. I didn’t try my luck anymore that afternoon. Instead I found a seat in the library and tried to finish some assignments. 那天下午,我没再去试试我的运气, 而是到图书馆去找了一个座位,想完成一些作业。
5. In a very few hours, we found ourselves accepting and internalizing the superficial and prejudiced judgments of ourselves that prevailed among the people we met; we catalogued ourselves. 没过几小时,我们发觉自己正在接受并适应着那种在我们所遇到的人中间流行的、对我们持有的肤浅看法和偏见。我们知道了自己现在这副打扮给人的印象。
6. It was midnight by the time they found her place. 他们找到朋友的住处时已是半夜了。
7. In the afternoon, he found the bones of a man. Beside the bones was a small bag of gold, like his own. 到了下午,他看到了一个男人的尸骨。旁边也有一小袋金子,和他的一样。
8. I feared being hated if people found out. 我害怕如果人们知道了这一情况会对我感到厌恶。
9. I got to my feet, found the keys, entered and called 911. The operator took a description of the robbers and sent a police car. 我站起身来,找到了钥匙,进了屋,然后拨通了911。接线员记下了我对劫匪的描述,然后派了辆警车来。
10. It was about midday. I'd left work early in the morning to cash (兑现) a cheque. I walked along to the bank and found there were only about ten or eleven customers in there, a pretty unusual number for those central city banks. 当时大约是中午时分,为了兑现一张支票,上午我提前下了班。我一路走到银行,发现那儿只有十来个顾客,这个数字对市中心的银行来说是相当不寻常的。