1. “That means that instead of working with them in the fields, their 6-year-old is in school learning the alphabet and how to add and subtract.
    "这就意味他们6岁大的孩子不再跟着自己在地里干活，而是要到学校里学习字母和加减法。

2. Julie Noel, a 21-year-old senior, recalls that she and her freshman year roommate didn't communicate and were uncomfortable throughout the year.
    21岁的朱莉·诺埃尔是大四学生。她回忆道，她一年级时与室友无法沟通，彼此整整一年都很不自在。

3. Japanese workers labor about 200 more hours per year than the average of their American counterparts, according to figures from Japan's Labor Ministry.
    据日本劳动省的数据，日本工人每年要比一般的美国工人多干200小时的活。

4. Ghana’s population has been growing by 3.2 percent a year.
    加纳的人口一直在以每年3.2%的速度增长。

5. But the paper was wrapped round a drum which rotated slowly. As long as all was still, the pen drew a straight line, but while the drum was being shaken, the line that the pen was drawing wriggled from side to side.
    但是纸是卷在慢慢放置的圆筒上的。只要一切都是静止的，笔就会划出一条直线；但是，圆筒受到震动，笔所画出的线就会左右摆动。

6. But each year, the dogs are still sent out into the snow whenever a traveller is in difficulty.
    但每年还要派狗到雪山地里去帮助那些遇到困难的旅游者，

7. (If each calendar year were to be several days shorter than the time it takes the earth to go round the sun, the coldest winter days would soon come round in the middle of October in some twenty years!)
    （如果每个日历年都比地球围绕太阳旋转一周所花费的时间少几天，那么二十年后，冬天最冷的几天就会在十月中旬左右出现！）

8. Caesar then decreed that the year should consist of 365 days, but every fourth year an extra day should be inserted at the end of February to make up for the quarter days that were lost.
    恺撒然后颁布命令，规定一年由365天组成，但每隔四年必须在2月底加一天，以补偿每年失去的1/4天。

9. Caesar´s astronomers chose to divide the year into 12 months of about the same length.
    恺撒的天文学家们选择把一年平均分成了12个月份。

10. But gave no profit or loss figures in line with the French practice of only giving such figures at year's end.
    但公司未提利润或亏损数字。这是法国的一贯做法，只在年底才统计利润或亏损。