1. I went to school and then to college and when the Second World War came I went into the U.S. Coastguards.
    我上了学，然后还上了大学。第二次世界大战时，我参加了美国海岸巡逻队。

2. I slept deeply that night, but it wasn't because I was happy and comfortable — quite the opposite; it was because I didn't want to take in anything else.
    那晚我睡得很香，但这不是因为我很开心、很舒服——完全相反，这是因为我不想再接受任何其它东西。

3. I had come the night before, a black and cold night before-as it was expected to be in the middle of January, though I didn't know that at the time — and I could not see anything clearly on the way from the airport, even though there were lights ever
    我是昨夜到这里的，那是个漆黑、寒冷的夜晚——一月中旬就该是这样的天气，可我那时并不知道这一点——虽然到处都有灯，可从机场出来的一路上我什么都看不清楚。

4. I retreat into sleep; I sleep through the day and the night, and my parents can't shake me out of it.
    我又蒙头睡觉,从早睡到晚，连父母都无法把我从睡梦中摇醒。

5. I relaxed, took out my notebook, and opened the school newspaper, pretending to be an old hand.
    我放松下来，拿出了笔记本，接着打开了校报, 装作是个老生。

6. In the United States, three-quarters of the adults surveyed by the Harris poll and two-thirds of all high-school seniors surveyed by Scholastic magazine say they believe that the United States will be a worse place 10 years from now than it is today.
    在美国，哈里斯民意测验所调查的成人中的四分之三及《中学生》杂志所调查的高中生中的三分之二的人，都说他们认为10年以后美国将变成一个比现在更糟糕的地方。

7. I don't feel I am missing out on anything by not being at school because I am a member of various clubs and have friends who attend normal school."
    我不觉得自己会因为不上学而失去什么，因为我是多个俱乐部的成员，还有许多在上正规学校的朋友。”

8. I want her to do well in school and to continue her music.
    我希望她学业好，继续学音乐。

9. I remember driving one night with my friend in her parents' automobile. We stopped at a red light at Carlton and Tulane where a black man was crossing the street in front of us.
    现在我走进了我家附近的一家加油站。一个黑人已经在排队等侯。他突然跳起来并转过身，在看见我以后才放松下来，对我说我吓着他了，因为这一带常出事。

10. In three years of day and night effort, Bell figured out how to send sound over a changing electric current.
    经过三年夜以继日的努力，贝尔弄清了如何通过波动的电流传送声音。