1. The fourth time he fell into the hands of a professional slave-catcher, who promptly had the man´s foot cut off with an axe against a tree stump.
    第四次逃跑时，他落到了一个职业奴隶捕手的手上。那人立即用斧头将他的一只脚放在树桩上砍了下来。

2. That´s the saga of the Black people in America, and I felt I had to write it.
    这就是美国黑人的长篇家世，我觉得我必须要把它写下来。

3. That Monday dinner-time, when we came in and found she wasn´t there, we all asked:
    那个星期一吃饭时间，我们进来发现她不在那儿，就一齐问道：

4. Tell us what´s happened to her."
    告诉我们她到底出了什么事。”

5. This morning she came in and said they had asked her to go to a lawyer´s office to meet the gentleman who owns the dog.
    今天早上，她进来说他们要她去律师的办公室见那位狗的主人。

6. The next day she went to her friend´s house and told her of her difficulty.
    第二天，她去了她朋友家，给她讲述了她的困难。

7. Towards seven o´clock her husband returned.
    快到7点钟的时候，她丈夫回来了，

8. The early Greeks had a calendar much like the Babylonians´. So did the early Romans.
    早期希腊和罗马人的日历与巴比伦人的日历十分相似。

9. To get his new calendar started in line with the seasons, Caesar moved New Year´s Day from March 1 to January 1, and so January became the first month of the year.
    为了使他新的日历符合四季，恺撒将新年从3月1日改为1月1日。于是一月就成为了一年的第一个月份。

10. The story goes that Augustus could not bear to have Julius Caesar´s month longer than the one he named himself.
    据说奥古斯都大帝不能容忍恺撒大帝的月份比他的月份长。