1. This is the sort of thing that Jeremy loves. 这正是杰里米喜欢做的事情。
2. The master had told us he would question us on verbs, and I did not know a thing about them, for I had not studied my lesson. 老师说过要问我们动词的问题,可是我没有温习功课,一点也不会。
3. They take great pains to make their lessons easy and interesting, always repeating the same phrases and at the same time doing the thing they are talking about. 他们尽力使他们的课程变得容易有趣,总是重复相同的短语,并与此同时做他们正在谈论着的事情。
4. The hardest thing about getting into Britain is walking the excessive distances around Heathrow Airport. 进入英国最难的事要数在希思罗机场用两条腿去走那段实在是太长的路了。
5. Three weeks later, when he felt better, he told them his story. But there was one strange thing: he feared there wasn't enough food on the ship. 过了三个星期,当他觉得好点的时候,他向他们讲述了自己的故事。但有一件怪事 :他总担心船上没有足够的食物。
6. That was probably a good thing because most electricity masters did not think a voice could be sent over a wire. 这或许是件好事,因为大多数电气专家认为声音无法通过电线传送。
7. The closest thing to an information superhighway today is the Internet, the system of linked computer networks that allows up to 25 million people in 135 countries to exchange information. 今天,与信息高速公路最接近的就是互联网,这是一个由电脑连接而成的网络系统,它使得135个国家多达2,500万的人能进行信息交换。
8. This was a very strange thing to do! 这太奇怪了!
9. One, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir, then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands. 据我所知,有位作家花了9个月的时间写了一部关克什米尔的小说,后来却把整个故事背景换成了苏格兰高地。
10. Of making it aware of the possibility, of supplying sufficient details to enable the thing to be constructed. 如果告诉它制造核弹的可能性,而且向它提供制造核弹的细节,那么可以设想,这将对这个社会产生何等的影响。