1. When the south pole is towards the sun, the southern half of the world (or the Southern Hemisphere) is warmer, and it has its summer (December, January and February).
    当南极斜向太阳时，地球的南半部（南半球）就比较温暖，处于夏季（十二、一、二月）。

2. Why, didn´t you tell me only the other day that you´d paid up all we owed for groceries?"
    可是，就在前几天，你不是告诉我你已经把我们欠下的买食品杂货的帐都还清吗？”

3. What day is today?
    今天是星期几？

4. What day of the month is it?
    今天是几号？

5. When people added one extra day to February every four years, they were adding 24 hours, whereas they should have added only 4 times 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds — a total of 23 hours, 15 minutes and 4 seconds.
    人们每四年给2月增加一天，这就增加了24小时，但实际上他们应该增加4个5小时48分46秒——一共是23小时15分4秒。

6. We don't know about dining cars, and when we discover that this train has such a thing, we can hardly afford to go there once a day on the few dollars that my father has brought with him.
    我们对餐车一无所知，而且当我们发现这辆列车上有这样一个地方时，爸爸随身带来的那几块美元几乎还不够我们一天去那里吃一次。

7. Whether or not they said anything I can't remember to this day, or whether people just automatically put their hands up I don't know. I put my hands up but I just didn't know what to do.
    有那么一会儿，那里一片寂静，而这寂静突然被电话铃声打断。我记得自己当时还曾想知道这会是谁打来的电话呢。没人接电话，于是它就在那原本死一般的寂静里不断地响啊响。

8. Women now form more than half the workers; the percentage is rising as they start up small businesses of their own, often working from home.
    如今妇女占劳动者数量的一半以上；随着她们建立起了自己的小公司，且常常在家上班，这一比例还在上升。

9. Welfare sent Suzanne to look around in my apartment the other day because the chemist said I was using a larger than usual amount of medical supplies.
    前几天，由于药剂师说我使用的医疗用品超出常量，于是福利部门派苏珊娜到我的住所调查。

10. We found a table close to the stage. He ordered half a liter of beer and I ordered a grape soda.
    我们找了一张靠近舞台的桌子，他要了半升啤酒，我则要了一杯葡萄汽水。