1. Once you know Engelbreit's distinctive style, you can recognize her cards from 20 paces away — bright, funny, and with an eye to the past.
    一旦你熟悉了恩格尔布赖特的独特风格，你就能在20步开外认出她的贺卡：色彩艳丽、趣味盎然、充满怀旧气息。

2. Our ability to believe what we want to has, in the past, made life easy for the beauty industry.
    人们对自己想要的东西的信任在过去使得美容业容易生存。

3. Later, an officer telephoned for additional details. He said the pair's methods suggested they might be the same men who had committed a number of robberies in the area over the past few months. He asked me to come to the station and look through mug
    后来，一个警察打电话来询问另外一些细节。他说这两个劫匪的作案手法表明他们可能就是过去几个月里这一地区多起抢劫案的肇事者。他让我到警察局去看一下疑犯的照片。

4. If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of ´college´ imaginable.
    如果我们的教育制度仿效没有书籍的古代教育，我们的学院将具有可以想象得出的最民主的形式了。

5. In less than a minute, it roared past them only a few feet away.
    不到1分钟的工夫，它从离他们只有几英尺远的地方呼啸着驶了过去。

6. I had lunch at half past twelve.
    我在12点半吃的。

7. It is a quarter past six.
    6点1刻。

8. It is half past six.
    6点半。

9. In the past nineteen years, TPL has completed up to a thousand conservation projects in Canada and the United States.
    在过去的19年里，该组织已在加拿大和美国完成了多达1千个的环境保护工程。

10. I can stay during rough times, however, because I can remember what we had together in the past, and I can picture what we will have together in our future if we care enough to face our problems and work them through.
    但是，在困难时期我能坚守，因为我仍记得我们共同渡过的往昔，我也能想像如果我们愿意直面问题、渡过难关，我们将共同拥有什么样的未来。