1. Many firms, for instance, have great difficulty in obtaining technical or scientific books from libraries because they are unwilling to have their names entered as having taken out such and such a book,
    比如，很多公司向图书馆借阅科技书籍时感到困难，因为它们不愿让人家记下它们公司的名字和借阅的某一本书。

2. Mrs. Eleanor Ramsay, a very wealthy old lady, has shared a flat with her cat, Rastus, for a great many years.
    埃莉诺.拉姆齐太太是一个非常富有的老妇人，多年来，一直同她养的猫拉斯一起住在一所公寓里。

3. MISS OGDEN: It´s a great honour, Nancy Lee.
    奥格登小姐 南茜·李，这是很高的荣誉。

4. Modern medicine owes a great deal to the discovery of certain tiny disease-carrying organisms.
    某些传染疾病的微生物的发现，对现代医学的发展作出了巨大的贡献。

5. Madame Loisel was a great success.
    路瓦栽夫人获得了极大的成功。

6. My great-aunt picked me up at the training center, and we rode in a taxi through the crowded city.
    我的姨婆到训练中心来接我，随后我们乘坐出租车穿过了这个拥挤的城市。

7. My great-aunt led me through a rotting (朽烂的) doorway into a room with a furnace (炉子), table, and a rocking chair where an old woman wearing gloves sat facing the doorway, covered with a worn brown blanket.
    我姨婆领我穿过一条破旧的门道，走进了一个房间，里面有一个火炉、一张桌子和一张摇椅。

8. My great-grandmother passed away last year at the age of 100.
    去年我外曾祖母在她100岁时去世了。

9. My great-grandfather on my mother's mother's side invented the toodle.
    我的外曾祖父发明了芥末筒。

10. Great hopes make great man.
    远大的希望，造就伟大的人物。