1. “I kept playing the same disk in my CD player for a whole day once just to test her because she was so timid,” says Noel. “It took her until dinner time to finally change it.”
    "我曾从早到晚用CD机播放同一张碟，就是为了试试她，因为她太羞怯了，" 诺埃尔说，"直到那天晚饭时，她才终于改变了她的羞怯。"

2. Gone is the time-consuming stamping of prices on each item.
    往每件商品上打价格的费时劳务从此结束了。

3. Your date of birth, Social Security Number, credit and medical histories.
    出生日期、社会保障号、信用记录和病史。

4. Collecting, by occupying spare time so constructively, makes a person contented, with no time for boredom.
    通过非常积极地利用业余时间，收藏使人心满意足，不再有无聊之日。

5. Collecting, by occupying spare time so constructively, makes a person contented, with no time for boredom.
    通过非常积极地利用业余时间，收藏使人心满意足，不再有无聊之日。

6. But he took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press.
    但过了好长时间不见他把数字寄来，在此期间，编辑等得不耐烦了，因为杂志马上要付印。

7. Collecting, by occupying spare time so constructively, makes a person contented, with no time for boredom.
    收藏活动通过富有建设性地利用业余时间使人感到心满意足，不再有无聊之日。

8. Captain Alison will set out at eight o´clock, so we´ll have plenty of time.
    艾利森船长将于8点钟启航，因此我们有充裕的时间。

9. But it takes a long time.
    但花的时间长。

10. (If each calendar year were to be several days shorter than the time it takes the earth to go round the sun, the coldest winter days would soon come round in the middle of October in some twenty years!)
    （如果每个日历年都比地球围绕太阳旋转一周所花费的时间少几天，那么二十年后，冬天最冷的几天就会在十月中旬左右出现！）