1. The sirens broke the silence of the night.
    号笛声划破了寂静的夜空。

2. The wind strengthened during the night.
    风在夜间刮得更猛了.

3. The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year´s crop before the September rains.
    为了赶在九月雨季之前将今年的作物收割和脱粒完，整个村子都日夜忙碌着。

4. The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since.
    教堂的钟很大，以前不分昼夜打点报时，但很多年前遭到毁坏，从此便无声无息了。

5. The sorry-looking, blackened figure that emerged, admitted at once that he had tried to break into the shop during the night but had got stuck in the chimney.
    那个看来满脸沮丧、浑身漆黑的家伙从烟囱里一出来，就承认头天夜里他企图到店里行窍，但让烟囱卡住了。

6. 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、

7. Then she swam to the shore after spending the whole night in the water.
    她在海里游了整整一夜才游到岸边。

8. The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year´s crop before the September rains.
    全村的人都日夜奋战，要赶在9月的雨季之前把今年的庄稼收获上来，打完场。

9. The stars we see at night are really huge suns like our sun, but they are farther away in space.
    我们晚上看到的星星，其实都是和太阳一样巨大的恒星，只不过是在更远的宇宙空间罢了。

10. That night as William Easton walked home through the rain he felt very depressed.
    那天晚上，威廉·伊斯顿冒着雨走回家，心情很沮丧。