1. Travelling at a height of 30,000 feet, far above the clouds, and at over 500 miles an hour is an exhilarating experience.
    腾云驾雾，在30，000 英尺高空以500英里的时速旅行，这种经历令人心旷神怡。

2. The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the greatest nuisance.
    客人提前半小时到达是令人讨厌的。

3. The only thing to do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests.
    唯一的办法就是请他们比别的客人晚来半小时。

4. The winning car reached a speed of forty miles an hour----much faster than any of its rivals.
    获胜的那辆车达到了时速40英里--远远超过任何对手。

5. The great racing driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, was the first man to drive at over 300 miles per hour.
    杰出的赛车选手马尔科姆.坎贝尔爵士是第一个以每小时超过300英里的速度驾车的人。

6. Then he has an hour for sports.
    随后有一小时的体育活动时间，

7. The men on the ship saw a strange object lying on the beach. It was moving toward them — perhaps twenty feet an hour.
    船上的人看见海滩上躺着一个奇怪的东西。这个东西正向他们爬过来--速度大概是每小时20英尺。

8. To start my career, I took a nine-hour class with a fast-talking woman who made a living reading tarot cards at psychic fairs and for private customers.
    为了开始我的工作，我到一个快嘴妇人那儿上了9小时的课程。她谋生的手段是在通灵大师集市上或私下里为顾客解读塔罗特牌。

9. That's when workmen using huge machines began clawing out 1,000 tons of clay every half hour as they bored from England to France.
    1987年开工时，工人们用巨大的机械设备以每半小时挖掘1,000吨泥土的速度由英国向法国掘进。

10. Total travel time, including getting on and off the train: 1 hour, 35 minutes.
    包括上下火车，总共需要的时间为1小时35分钟。