1. "There are mysterious and strange things going on out there," admits Richard Winer, author of The Devil's Triangle, a book that has sold 500,000 copies since its publication three months ago. "那里的怪事、奇事层出不穷,"《魔鬼三角》的作者理查德·文纳说。他这本书从三个月前出版以来,已经售出了50万册。
2. So I first sold the silver buttons of my Sunday coat, and then I sold my silver chain, and then I sold my pipe. 我先把我最好的衣服上的银扣卖了,然后又把我的银链卖了,后来又把烟斗卖了,
3. Soon millions were sold every year and trousers everywhere stopped falling down. 很快,拉链的年销售量达到了数百万条,人们也不再掉裤子了。
4. More than half of the home computers sold in the United States in recent years will become essential to home life in the West. Future tasks computers already do at home include: 近年来在美国售出的家庭电脑有半数以上将成为西方家庭生活的必需品。电脑已经在家庭中发挥的未来功能有:
5. Mattel says the average American girl owns ten Barbie dolls, and two are sold somewhere in the world every second. 马特尔公司说,一般的美国女孩拥有10个芭比娃娃,全球每秒钟就有两个芭比娃娃售出。
6. More than a million roses will be sold during this festival for lovers, the biggest day of the year for the nation's rose industry. 今年的情人节——全国玫瑰行业一年中销量最大的一天,将售出100多万支玫瑰。
7. Glancing at her scornfully, he told her that the dress was sold. 轻蔑地看了她一眼后,便告诉她那件衣服已经卖出去了。
8. "I´ve sold one of my pictures to a man from Peoria," he said, "and he has ordered another." “我卖了一幅画给一位皮奥里亚来的人。他另外还定购了一幅。”
9. On page three, 1 October 1767, was the ad of the agents of the ship, announcing the arrival of the Lord Ligonier under Captain Davies from the River Gambia, with a cargo of "fresh, choice, healthy slaves for sale, to be sold the following Wednesday a 在第3页上,1767年10月1 日,记录着轮船代理人的广告,宣布来自冈比亚河由戴维斯船长率领的利戈尼尔勋爵号带来了一船“新鲜的、精选的、健壮的奴隶,将于下个星期三在梅格码头出售。”
10. One health official recommends that when you sign a medical form you change it to make it clear "that you do not consent to having information re-released or sold to a second party without your direct, written consent". 一位卫生官员建议,当填写医疗表格时,你可改变一下,清楚地表明"你不同意在没有你的直接书面同意的情况下将你的信息泄露或出卖给第二方"。