1. Its design breaks every known rule of acoustics, but you can, in spite of its size, hear distinctly in every part of it.
    在设计上，它打破了音响学所有的陈规。尽管大会堂规模宏大，但是你在会堂里的每个地方都可以听得清清楚楚。

2. In fact, in many places it´s becoming a part of everyday life.
    实际上，在很多地方，激光已成为人们日常生活的一部分。

3. 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，

4. 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。

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

6. 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。

7. It was a hideous act, but it helped the African to stay put on one plantation, since no calculating planter would care to part with a crippled slave for the current price of one dollar.
    这是一种惨不忍睹的暴行，但却使他在一家种植园呆了下来。因为没有一个精于算计的种植园主，会愿意为了一个美元而卖掉一个瘸腿的奴隶。

8. 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。

9. 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。

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