1. Almost as soon as people began counting "days", they must have noticed the changes in the moon.
    几乎在人们开始计算“天”的同时，他们一定已经注意到了月亮的变化。

2. After landing at the Gale Morghe Airport, about five miles south of Teheran, we drove into town along a road which, as we arrived at the city limits, was lined with people.
    在德黑兰以南约5英里的加尔莫尔盖机场降落后，我们驱车沿着公路进入城镇。当我们进入市区时，公路两旁站满了人。

3. And yet this is the result: here a complete mastery of the language, however stupid the children; there, in most cases, even with people otherwise highly gifted, a faulty and inexact command.
    而结果却是：一边完全掌握了语言，不管孩子多么笨拙；另一边大都对语言的掌握不完善，不准确，即使天赋很高的人，也是如此。

4. "It's not easy to leave behind the people you love, especially a boyfriend. I cried at the departure and I cried on the plane too," says Patricia Caglian.
    帕特里夏·卡格利恩说: "抛下你所爱的人，特别是男朋友, 是很不容易的。我在飞机起飞的时候哭了，到了飞机上还在哭。"

5. "That's idealistic. People can be very cruel toward children from mixed marriages."
    "那是一种理想主义的想法。人们对异族通婚生下的孩子是会很残酷的。"

6. "People in and near cities have little opportunity to experience parks or unprotected open spaces, and that's becoming a problem," says Mister Ernest Cook, a senior vice president of the Trust for Public Land (TPL).
    "住在城里或城市附近的人们很少有机会看到公园或开阔的空地，这正在成为一个问题," 公有土地信托机构的资深副总裁欧内斯特·考克先生说。

7. "As soon as I stopped calling myself Debbie, I felt more comfortable with myself ... and other people started to take me more seriously."
    "我一停止称自己为黛比，我就对自己感到比较舒坦了……而且其他人也开始更认真地对待我了。"

8. A standard criticism of sociological research is that it goes to great lengths to prove what most people with common sense already know.
    社会学研究的标准评论往往会不遗余力地去证明那些大多数有常识的人已经知道了的东西。

9. As it turned out, there was no need for dramatics; people turned us off or tuned us out on the basis of appearance alone.
    结果证明：无须夸张做作，人们单凭我们的外貌就叫我们离开或把我们撵走。

10. "What happens is that the hotter people get, physiologically, with mental stress, the more likely they are to blow apart with some heart problem."
    "此时就会发生这种情况--人们由于心理上的压力在生理上变得越发激动，他们的身体就越可能因为某种心脏病而垮下来。"