1. So, on his tenth birthday, Johnny goes to the brain-control center. He sits for an hour or so under a machine that looks something like a hair-dryer, with him attached to it.
    所以，约翰尼在10岁生日那天来到了大脑控制中心。他坐在一个形似吹风头罩的机器下面，并和机器连接在一起，就这样坐了一个小时左右。

2. Six days later, the police arrested Vincent Ellis, a 29-year-old business-machine operator, and charged him with murder.
    六天后，警方逮捕了29岁的商用机器操作员文森特·艾利斯，并指控他犯有谋杀罪。

3. My relatives came from Europe at the height of the Machine Age (机器时代).
    我的前辈们在"机器时代" 的高峰期从欧洲来到了美洲。

4. Controlling this precision machine and its many weapons is like playing a million-dollar video game that has dozens of buttons.
    控制这架精密的机器和它所携带的众多武器，就像玩一个备有几十个按钮、价值百万的电子游戏。

5. One Saturday afternoon, I hauled the machine into the garden and had a close look at it.
    一个星期六的下午，我把割草机拉到了花园里，仔细检查了一番。

6. It is impossible to assess the importance of a machine of this sort.
    这类机器的重要性是不可估量的.

7. It is the combination of wit and political analysis that makes his articles so readable.
    他的生花妙笔与政治分析相得益彰, 使他的文章脍炙人口.

8. I was not surprised to find that the machine still refused to work after I had reassembled it.
    机器装好之后，我发现它还是不肯运转。我没有为此而惊奇.

9. I found this to be a reliable brand of washing machine.
    我觉得这是一种牌子可靠的洗衣机。

10. I was not surprised to find that the machine still refused to work after I had reassembled it,
    等我装完后，那台割草机仍然一动不动，对此我倒并不感到吃惊。