1. Marshal Goering boasted, "This is the historic hour when our air force for the first time delivered its bombs right into the enemy's heart."
    戈林元帅曾吹嘘说："这是我们空军第一次把炸弹直接投入敌人心脏的历史性时刻。"

2. Mr. Torres was beginning the complicated two-hour trip to his job developing film in the X-ray department of the emergency room of the Bronx Municipal (市立的) Hospital Center.
    多里斯先生正准备上班，这一路得花两个小时，十分麻烦。他在布朗克斯市立中心医院的急诊放射科干冲洗胶片的工作。

3. “We have a wait of half an hour, I think.”
    "我想我们要等半个小时。"

4. Caesar then decreed that the year should consist of 365 days, but every fourth year an extra day should be inserted at the end of February to make up for the quarter days that were lost.
    恺撒然后颁布命令，规定一年由365天组成，但每隔四年必须在2月底加一天，以补偿每年失去的1/4天。

5. "Well," said the constable, "It´s very strange that you should be wandering about at this hour — and outside this shop.
    “嗯。”巡警说，“奇怪的是你竟在这个时间，而且在这珠宝店外转来转去。

6. Upon leaving Paris, trains will whistle along at an approximate speed of 186 miles per hour until they go underground, but will creep along as slow as 50 miles per hour behind local trains the last 68 miles to London.
    火车离开巴黎，呼啸着以大约186英里的时速驶入地下，行至距伦敦68英里处的时候，却只能跟在当地的火车后面，以每小时50英里的速度慢慢爬行。

7. Radar sirens wailed, ambulances rushed from one place of agony to another, and fire fighters faced the flames hour after hour.
    雷达警报器在尖叫, 救护车从一个充满痛苦的地方向另一个充满痛苦的地方飞速行驶, 而消防队员则每时每刻面对的是熊熊火焰。

8. One hour and seventeen minutes passed and we had not even covered half the distance.
    1小时17分过去了，走了还不到一半路程。

9. Only the wolf stayed with him hour after hour. At last he could go no further.
    只有那条狼连续几个小时一直跟着他。最后他实在挪不动了，

10. On a visit to Santa Fe in 1943, she asked why she couldn't see the picture he had just taken. During the next hour, as Land walked around Santa Fe, all he had learned about chemistry came together:
    1943年在去圣菲游览时，女儿问他，为什么她无法看到他刚刚拍摄的照片。在接下来的一小时里，兰德一边在圣菲游览，一边脑子里却汇聚着他学过的所有关于化学的知识。