1. "It helps," said Major Hamilton.
    "那当然有用，"汉密尔顿少校说。

2. Although the major joked about how simple it was to fly the F-16, the truth is that a pilot must be an expert to control the craft.
    尽管少校开玩笑说，驾驶F-16是件多么容易的事，然而事实是，驾驶这架飞机的飞行员必须是专家才行。

3. As Major Hamilton landed our plane gracefully, I was thankful that he, not a monkey, had been my pilot.
    在汉密尔顿少校把我们的飞机轻巧地降下时，我非常庆幸飞机的飞行员是他，而不是只猴子。

4. And to ensure the populations were "pure", the study was confined to groups that were in their present locations as of 1492, before the first major movements from Europe began — in effect, a genetic photo of the world when Columbus sailed f
    为了确保种群的"纯正"，这项研究将对象限定于其目前的生活区域仍与1492年以来相同的那些群体，即在来自欧洲最初的大规模迁移之前。这实际上就是一幅真实的哥伦布驶向美洲时期的世界人口基因分布图。

5. SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) — For generations of students, writing term papers has been a major source of nerves and frustration, if not the ultimate homework nightmare.
    旧金山（美国有线新闻电视网）--对一代又一代的学生来说，写学期论文即使不是最可怕的作业，也至少一直是让他们头疼和沮丧的主要原因。

6. My college roommate, now head of a large shipping company in New York, not surprisingly was a business major.
    我的一位大学室友——现在是纽约一家大型航运公司的总裁——过去曾主修过商科，这一点并不出人意料。

7. Churchill was much too carried away by his own eloquence to pay attention to his pleasant and excellent interpreter, Major Arthur H. Birse.
    丘吉尔讲起话来，雄辩滔滔，不能自休，以致于他很少注意到为他做翻译的友善而优秀的阿瑟·H·伯尔斯少校。

8. Churchill brought Eden, Lord Ismay, Deputy Secretary to the War Cabinet, and Major Birse as interpreter.
    丘吉尔带了艾登、战时内阁大臣伊斯梅勋爵，译员伯尔斯少校。

9. One of our major purposes is to increase productivity.
    我们的一个主要目的是要提高生产力。

10. Over the next two decades, IIT graduates — educated at the expense of Indian taxpayers — played a major role in founding California's Silicon Valley.
    在接下来的20年中，印度技术学院的毕业生们——那些用印度纳税人的钱培养出来的毕业生——却在加利福尼亚硅谷的创建过程中发挥了主要作用。