1. Long, long ago there lived in Greece a king whose name was Midas.
    很久很久以前，希腊有个国王，名叫迈达斯。

2. It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well.
    它不仅巨大而且走时极其准确。

3. It has yet to reach its full size and strength, and its owner his or her full intelligence;
    虽然这个时期人的身材、体力和智力还有待发展和完善，

4. I had no intention of buying one, but I could not conceal the fact that I was impressed by the size of the diamonds.
    我根本不想买，但我不能掩饰这样一个事实：其钻石之大给我留下了深刻的印象。

5. It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well.
    此钟不仅外型巨大，而且走时也非常准确。

6. In 1763 he came home and set up as a surgeon, and 5 years later he became chief surgeon at St. George´s Hospital and surgeon to the king, George Ⅲ.
    1763年回国，建立了外科诊室。5年之后，他成为圣·乔治医院的主治外科医生，并兼任国王乔治三世的私人外科医生。

7. 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。

8. I found "the King´s soldiers" which the village elder spoke of were Colonel O´Hara´s forces, which had been sent from London to the Gambia River to guard the British fort, James Slave Fort, and the date — 1767 — was right on.
    我发现村里老者说到的“国王的军队”就是上校奥里尔的部队，他们是从伦敦被派到冈比亚河去保卫英国要塞詹姆士堡的，所记载的日期恰好是1767年，完全吻合。

9. In 1883 an American physician, A.F.A.King, listed twenty observations which he believed pointed to mosquitoes as a factor in malaria.
    1883年，一位叫A. F. A. 金的美国内科医生列举了他所观察到的20种现象，说明蚊子极可能是产生疟疾的因素。

10. Where talent scouts recruited him to work for Mack Sennett, the king of Hollywood comedy films.
    在那里，他被星探招募到好莱坞喜剧片之王麦克·塞纳特的旗下工作。