1. Computers turn on the lights, heating and essential household services before people arrive home from work. Computers control cooking, hot water, security.
    在人们下班回来之前，电脑会打开电灯、暖气和其他基本的家庭设施。做饭、烧热水和安全系统都由电脑控制。

2. "Go," said the gods, "and wash your hands in the river near your garden, and the water will take away the Golden Touch."
    “到你花园旁边的那条河去，”众神说，“洗一洗手，河水就会把点金术除掉。”

3. "Let´s first make it and then I´ll find some way or other to launch it into the water," I said to myself.
    “我先把船造好，然后再想法子把它弄下水去。”我自言自语地说道。

4. Neither the people who own stock in the company, nor the officers of the 220 banks that provided history's biggest loan, nor the 3,000 journalists trying to imagine three parallel tunnels beneath 100 feet of water and 130 feet of clay.
    不论是公司的股票持有人，还是提供了历史上最大贷款的220家银行的官员们，或者是3,000名记者，都无一例外。记者们只可尽力想像水下100英尺、泥土下130英尺的三条并行的隧道的状况。

5. Only the angler still thinks fresh- water fish important.
    只有嗜好钓鱼的人仍然垂青于淡水鱼；

6. One of her little idiosyncrasies is always washing in cold water.
    她有个怪习惯, 就是洗什么都爱用冷水.

7. Oceania is a separate landmass, but it is separated from Asia by very shallow water.
    大洋洲是一块单独的陆地, 但它与亚洲之间只隔着很浅的水域.

8. Once we get down to the oil, it usually flows to the surface because great pressure, either from gas or water, is pushing it.
    一旦到达油层，石油就会由于地下巨大的压力流到地面上来，这种巨大的压力来自地下天然气或水。

9. Our knowledge of the oceans a hundred years ago was confined to the two-dimensional shape of the sea surface and the hazards of navigation presented by the irregularities in depth of the shallow water close to the land.
    100年前，我们只知道海洋是二维平面形的，以及靠近陆地浅水区的深浅不一能给航行带来危险。

10. Our next obstacle was a shallow pool of water about half a mile across.
    下一个障碍是一片约半英里宽的浅水塘。