1. There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for ´protection.´
    曾经有一个时期,芝加哥的店主和商行的老板们不得不拿出大笔的钱给歹徒以换取´保护´。

2. They had large rooms with beautifully decorated walls.
    里面房间很大，墙壁装饰华丽。

3. Though he owned a large car, he hardly ever used it, preferring always to go on foot.
    尽管他有一辆豪华小轿车，但却很少使用，常常喜欢以步代车。

4. Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney.
    就像许多人最近在悉尼郊区帕拉马塔发现的那样，有时乱子会闹得很大。

5. The morning passed rapidly and Frank was about to leave when he noticed a large packing case lying on the floor.
    上午很快过去了，弗兰克正准备离去，突然看见地板上放着一只体积很大的货箱。

6. The shop was an old converted house with many large, disused fireplaces and tall, narrow chimneys.
    那是一座老式的、经过改造的房子，店里有许多废置不用的大壁炉和又高又窄的烟囱。

7. The survey revealed a large number of sources of noise that we really dislike. Lawn mowers whining on a summer´s day,
    这个调查揭示了我们所不喜欢的大量的噪间的来源：夏天呜呜作响的割草机，公寓楼里深夜聚会的喧哗声，

8. Late-night parties in apartment blocks, noisy neighbours, vehicles of all kinds, especially large container trucks thundering through quiet villages, planes and helicopters flying overhead,
    大声吵闹的邻居，各式各样的车辆，特别是穿越寂静的村庄的集装箱卡车，从头顶飞过的飞机和直升机，被带到公共场所、

9. Large radios carried round in public places and played at maximum volume.
    音量开到最大的大功率收音机。

10. Though these large machines still exist, many of their functions have been taken over by small powerful personal computers, commonly known as PCs.
    虽然这种大计算机仍然存在，但它们的许多功能已被体积小但功能齐全的个人电脑--即我们常说的PC机--所代替了。