1. They remained at the table in silence for some time, and then Easton asked:
    他们默默地在桌子边坐了一会儿，这时伊斯顿问道：

2. The next time he woke up the ticking had ceased.
    再醒来时，嘀嗒声已停。

3. The time was exactly seven o´clock.
    这时正好七点整。

4. The African kept trying to escape — which in those days was to attempt the impossible — and each time he was caught and brought back.
    “老非洲”一直企图逃跑——但在当时要逃走是不可能的——每一次他都被抓住给带了回来。

5. The fourth time he fell into the hands of a professional slave-catcher, who promptly had the man´s foot cut off with an axe against a tree stump.
    第四次逃跑时，他落到了一个职业奴隶捕手的手上。那人立即用斧头将他的一只脚放在树桩上砍了下来。

6. That Monday dinner-time, when we came in and found she wasn´t there, we all asked:
    那个星期一吃饭时间，我们进来发现她不在那儿，就一齐问道：

7. The moon was full.
    月亮是圆的，

8. Then it grew night by night to a full moon again.
    然后再一夜一夜地长大，再次成为圆月。

9. That may not seem much, but time this by 1600, and you will see it is a serious error.
    这看上去好象不算什么，但是这个数乘以1600，你就会发现这是一个严重的误差。

10. The conversation soon turned to the plan for a general world organization, an idea which Roosevelt had cherished for quite some time.
    话题很快转到建立一个综合性的世界组织的计划上，这是罗斯福心爱的设想，脑子里已经琢磨很久了。