1. Scientists have named these stars ´quasars´.
    科学家们称这些星体为“类星体”。

2. Some years ago an American psychiatrist named William Dement published experiments dealing with the recording of eye-movements during sleep.
    前些年，美国一位精神病学者发表了一篇报告，报告中记录了眼球在睡眠时的活动情况。

3. Many centuries ago, Scotland was ruled by a king named Robert Bruce.
    许多世纪以前，苏格兰由一位名叫罗伯特·布鲁斯的国王所统治着。

4. Mattel refashioned the doll into a decent, all-American — although with an exaggerated breast size — version and named it after Barbara, who was then a teenager.
    马特尔公司将这个娃娃作了一番改造，变成了体面而地道的美国货，尽管胸围有些夸张。它名从当时10多岁的少女芭芭拉。

5. Confess: Wouldn't you be surprised to meet a carpenter named Nigel?
    老老实实地坦白：你碰到一个名叫奈杰儿的木匠会不会感到惊讶呢？

6. "In our country, many of our older villages are named from the families which founded those villages centuries ago," they explained.
    “在我们国家，很多年老的村民们都是按几个世纪以前建立那些村庄的家族来取名的，”他们解释说。

7. Once upon a time there was an honest little fellow named Hans.
    从前，有一个诚实的小伙子叫汉斯。

8. One woman I know turned down a blind date with a man named Harry because "he sounded dull".
    我认识一个女人，她拒绝了一次由第三方安排的、与一个叫哈里的男人的约会，因为"这人听上去没劲"。

9. Teachers gave consistently lower grades on essays apparently written by boys named Elmer and Hubert than they awarded to the same papers when the writer's names were given as Michael and David.
    教师老是给卷上名字为埃尔默和休伯特的男孩写的文章打较低的分数, 实际这是同样的两份卷子。

10. In 1948, he went to lake Kivu in the Congo to observe a new volcano which he later named Kituro.
    1948 年他到刚果的基伍湖去观察一个新火山，后来他给这座火山起名为基图罗。