1. It started a few years ago, when food processors agreed the time had come to put code markings on every one of their thousands of food products.
    这种作法是几年前开始的，那时，食品生产商一致认为食品有成千上万种，在每种食品上都打上特殊标志的时机已到，

2. I had been stranded on this little island for quite some time when one day I put myself upon thinking whether it was not possible to make myself a boat.
    我已经困在这座小岛上有相当一段时间了。一天，我琢磨着，是不是可以为自己造一条船。

3. In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird,
    即使是春日的布谷鸟，

4. It seemed they talked about things that had happened to the family a very long time ago, and they went back and back and back.
    她们好象是在聊一些很久以前家里发生过的事，她们讲呀、讲呀、讲呀，越讲离现在越远。

5. In the slave-cabin, he would point out a banjo or a guitar and say one syllable, ko, and in time the little girl came to associate ko with a banjo or a guitar.
    在奴隶居住的小木屋里，他会指着一个班卓琴或是一把吉他用一个音节ko来代替。经过一段时间，小女孩开始把ko和班卓琴或吉他联系起来。

6. In time another village was built, called to this day Kinte-Kinda Janneh-Ya.
    另一个村庄又建立了起来，直到今天还仍然叫肯泰-库丹霍 詹内尔-雅。

7. I gave her the time off, and that´s where she´s gone."
    我准她告假，她就去了那里。”

8. It might have killed our boy if we hadn´t got him away in time."
    如果不是我们及时把他弄走，那条狗会把我儿子弄死的。”

9. In time, men saw that there were seasons which followed one another in regular order.
    渐渐地，人们发现季节是按顺序出现的。

10. I asked if he would try to remember to break up his comments into shorter periods of time.
    我问他可否能尽力记着谈话时多断几个间隔。