1. Without having another man to check upon what he is doing, keep him in line, and report on him to someone else.
    用不着另外再有一个人检查他的工作，督促他遵守章程，或向有关人士汇报他的工作。

2. It suddenly dawned on me that this express was not roaring down the line at ninety miles an hour, but barely chugging along at thirty.
    我突然感到这趟快车并没以时速90英里的速度呼啸前进，而是卟哧卟哧地向前爬行，时速仅30英里。

3. It broke down at Ferngreen station and was taken off the line.´
    它在芬格林车站出了故障而被取消了。"

4. It was not until nearly 200 years later that England found it necessary to drop 11 days from the calendar to bring it in line.
    直到大约200年以后，英国才发现有必要从日历中去掉11天来取齐。

5. Increases in information and knowledge-based businesses are reducing levels of middle management. Top managers get all the information needed to work together with front-line staff.
    随着以信息和知识为基础的行业的不断增多，中层管理者数量在不断减少。高级管理者掌握着与一线员工协调所需的所有信息。

6. From the shore line, out to a distance which may be anywhere from a few miles to a few hundred miles, runs the gentle slope of the continental shelf, geologically part of the continents.
    从海岸线向大海延伸几英里到几百英里的区域是大陆架慢坡，从地质学上来说，它是大陆的一部分。

7. From now on, my life will be divided into two parts, with the line drawn by that train.
    从今以后，我的一生将被划分成两个部分，这列火车的行程划出了其中的分界线。

8. For a few moments there was just total silence, suddenly broken by the telephone ringing. I remember wondering who was on the other end of the line. Nobody answered the telephone, so it just kept on ringing and ringing, in this otherwise (不然) deathly
    接着，两个戴面罩的人走到柜台前，一越而过，开始让银行司库和办事员往他们的包里装现金。就在这两个人在那里拿钱的时候，站在门口拿枪看着我们的那一个显然开始有些着急了，他开始嘴里骂骂咧咧地催促那两个人抓紧时间，快点离开。