1. The food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine.
    食物是当地的干酪和通常存放了一年之久的面包，人们就着劣酒吞下这种食物。

2. Lunch is at twelve.
    12点吃午饭，

3. If we could stay as vigorous as we are at twelve, it would take about 700 years for half of us to die, and another 700 for the survivors to be reduced by half again.
    假如我们能保持12岁时的旺盛生命力，那么我们当中的一半人过700年才会死去，剩下的一半人再过700年，才会又减少一半。

4. It would strike twelve in twenty minutes´ time.
    再过20分钟，大钟将敲响12下。

5. I had lunch at half past twelve.
    我在12点半吃的。

6. I found that since there was no other person to work at it but myself, it would have to be ten to twelve years before I could go through with it; for the shore lay high, and at the upper end it must have been twenty feet deep.
    我发现，只有我自己，没有其他人帮忙，这项工程需要十到十二年的时间才能完成。因为河岸很高，从顶部算差不多有二十英尺。

7. Fifteen minutes passed and then, at five to twelve, the clock stopped.
    15分钟过去了，而就在11点55分时，大钟停了。