1. Now, 500 years later, excessive fishing has reduced the number of fish to dangerously low levels.
    500年以后的今天，过度捕捞已使鱼的数量减少到危险的程度。

2. He went into the phone booth and dialed the number.
    他走进电话亭拨了号码。

3. He is suspected of implication in a number of robberies.
    他被怀疑和多次抢劫案有关。

4. His answer was to lift the vessel out of the water by making it ride on a cushion of air, no more than one or two feet thick. This is done by a great number of ring-shaped air jets on the bottom of the craft.
    他的解决办法是把船体提离水面，让船在一个气垫上行驶，气垫只有一两英尺厚。船底装上大量环状喷气嘴以实现这一目的。

5. ----while our own compulsory school attendance became law in Germany in 1642, in France in 1806, and in England in 1876, and is still non-existent in a number of ´civilized´ nations.
    而我们的义务教育成为法律在德国是在1642年，在法国是在1806年，在英国是在1876年。

6. He is working for a big firm and he has already visited a great number of different places in Australia.
    正在一家大公司工作，并且已经去过澳大利亚的不少地方了。

7. He had included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a great success.
    他的祝词里面加进了大量逗人的故事，自然大获成功。

8. He was in car number fifteen.
    他在第15号车里，

9. He would then ride the R train to 59th Street where he would walk upstairs to switch to the Number 6 train.
    然后他得乘R线在59街下车，再往上走一层楼转搭6号列车。

10. Attendant: I don´t know, sir. What´s the licence number of your car?
    服务员: 我不知道, 先生. 你的汽车牌号是什么?