1. The surface of his pyramid used to shine with smooth white limestone, and its top came to a sharp point.
    以前，大金字塔表面光滑的白石灰石非常耀眼，塔的顶端很尖。

2. The farmers showed us how to cut the rice and how to tie the bundles.
    农民教我们如何割稻子，如何打捆，我们很快就学会了，

3. Then I resolved to cut a canal to bring the water up to the canoe, seeing that I could not bring the canoe down to the water.
    既然无法使小舟下水，于是我就决定挖一条渠道，把水引到船下。

4. The fourth time he fell into the hands of a professional slave-catcher, who promptly had the man´s foot cut off with an axe against a tree stump.
    第四次逃跑时，他落到了一个职业奴隶捕手的手上。那人立即用斧头将他的一只脚放在树桩上砍了下来。

5. The tube assists breathing, but patients say it feels like a fire running through their throat and hurts more than having their chest cut open.
    导管帮助病人呼吸，但病人说感觉它就像一把火烧过喉咙，比开胸还难受。

6. Two years ago, a 15-member team at the 115-year-old teaching hospital, under pressure to cut costs from a health maintenance organization (HMO), was given permission by the hospital's top manager to find a way to get the tube removed sooner.
    两年前，出于一家保健组织（HMO）要求减少成本的压力，这家有115年历史的教学医院组建了一支15人小组，他们得到医院总经理的许可来研制一种方法，以便尽早去掉导管。

7. The hospitals had cut way back on the large amounts of pain-killing drugs usually given during and after surgery that were used primarily to control blood pressure, not pain.
    这些医院削减了原本大量使用的止痛药，这些药通常在手术中和手术后都使用，主要是用来控制血压而不是止疼。

8. Next I felt intense fear. Had I cut my head? Was I bleeding? Was there blood in the pool?
    接着便感到十分恐惧。头碰破了吗？流血了吗？游泳池里有没有血？

9. Hay had been cut and cow sheds had been cleaned.
    干草已切好了，牛栏已打扫过了。

10. He revised his story to cut it shorter.
    为了精简故事, 他将其修改了一番。