1. I turn and without really thinking, angry and frightened, I shoot. I kill a man for $50 or perhaps $100. 我又设想另外一种在我的公寓前遭遇歹徒的情景。当一个人向我要钱时我正带着枪。
2. It doesn't matter that he was trying to rob me. A man has died for money, not my money or his money, just money. Who put that price on his life? 我很生气又很害怕,但我没有用枪。我害怕在我不使用枪的情况下可能发生的事情,但我更害怕杀死别人,更害怕在因为杀了人而良心遭受无尽的谴责中活着。
3. I remember driving one night with my friend in her parents' automobile. We stopped at a red light at Carlton and Tulane where a black man was crossing the street in front of us. 现在我走进了我家附近的一家加油站。一个黑人已经在排队等侯。他突然跳起来并转过身,在看见我以后才放松下来,对我说我吓着他了,因为这一带常出事。
4. It was 3:50 by the time the police received their first call, from a man who was a neighbor of Miss Parry. 警察第一次接到电话时已是3:50。报警的是个男人,是帕里小姐的一个邻居。
5. In tight turns and recovering from dives, it can pull nine G's, or nine times the force of gravity, causing a 200-pound man to weigh nearly a ton. 在急转弯和俯冲后拉升时,它能达到超重9倍,也就是重力的9倍,让一个体重200磅的男子重达近1吨。
6. Is the man apparently preparing to surrender really going to, or is he going to raise the gun in front of him and shoot? 那个看似想投降的人是否真会投降,还是要举枪射击?
7. Father was an austere man, very strict with his children. 父亲是个严厉的人, 对子女十分严格。
8. From time to time , during the night , there was a moan from the sick man. 晚上,病人不时地长出呻吟声。
9. For it produces a resentful animal who at a later stage may well turn man-killer. 因为这种方法会使动物“怀恨在心”,在以后某个阶段它很可能变成伤人的动物。
10. Fortunately for me, as I was wondering what to do next, there appeared on the horizon a man on horseback, riding in my direction. 不过,我是幸运的,正当我走投无路之时,从天边出现一个骑马的人向我骑来。