1. Turning those pages and studying their photographs is like flowing on a sad current that, like Blake's Thames, seems to "mark in every face, marks of weakness, marks of woe."
    一张张翻看并研读这些照片，仿佛漂流在一条让人伤心的河流上，就像身处英国诗人布莱克笔下的泰晤士河畔，似乎 "看见每一个过往行人都是满脸饥色，满脸愁苦。"

2. There was no middle point. They had a simple saying hanging on their living-room wall: "Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show."
    两者之间没有折中可言。在他们起居室的墙上挂着一幅字，上面写着一句朴实无华的格言：“生活如雪后初霁的大地。足之所至，迹必留之。”

3. The difference is this: in "I to you", both sides present their arguments openly from their own point of view — they state what they want and what they expect to get.
    差别在于：在"我对你"的方式中，双方都坦率地从自己的观点出发提出主张——他们说出自己想要什么，希望得到什么。

4. The "you to you" approach practiced in Japan is based on each side — automatically and often unconsciously — trying to understand the other person's point of view.
    日本人所采用的"你对你"的方式则建立在各方——自然而然地并常常是下意识地——力图理解对方观点的基础之上。

5. There she stayed, most of the afternoon, playing and singing and drinking from her bottle, sleeping at one point, leaning against my grandmother's leg.
    大半个下午，她就待在那儿玩玩具，唱歌，从瓶子里喝水，有一会儿还枕着外婆的腿睡着了。

6. The whole point of marriage is that it imposes clear obligations, not just the right to pursue your own happiness.
    婚姻的全部意义就在于它予以夫妻双方清晰的责任义务，而不仅仅是追求个人幸福的权利。

7. Thailand is also turning to wireless, as a way to allow Thais to make better use of all the time they spend stuck in traffic.
    泰国也在求助于无线通信方式，以便让泰国人在发生交通堵塞的时候更好地利用时间。

8. The same map, in combination with ancient human bones, confirms that Africa was the birthplace of humanity and thus the starting point of the original human movements.
    结合对远古人骨的研究，这一图谱证实了非洲是人类的诞生地，因而也是人类迁移的始发地。

9. 6 p.m. The movers finally arrive. I call Max. He's fit to be tied. I point out they're only 10 hours late. Max is not humored.
    下午六点。搬运工终于来了。我再给马克斯打电话。他气得要命。我告诉他搬运工只迟到了十个小时。他却仍然很生气。

10. Negro combustion slowly built up to the revolution point.
    黑人的怒火逐渐上升到采取革命行动的地步。