1. It was five feet ten inches in diameter near the stump, and four feet eleven inches in diameter at the end of twenty-two feet, after which it lessened a little, and then parted into branches.
    根部附近直径是五英尺十英寸。树干二十二英尺处，直径为四英尺十一英寸。然后渐渐地变细，分出了枝桠。

2. I found that since there was no other person to work at it but myself, it would have to be ten to twelve years before I could go through with it; for the shore lay high, and at the upper end it must have been twenty feet deep.
    我发现，只有我自己，没有其他人帮忙，这项工程需要十到十二年的时间才能完成。因为河岸很高，从顶部算差不多有二十英尺。

3. I came ten minutes early to my News Media and U.S. Government class.
    在上“新闻媒体和美国政府”这门课时，我提前了10分钟到达。

4. It was about midday. I'd left work early in the morning to cash (兑现) a cheque. I walked along to the bank and found there were only about ten or eleven customers in there, a pretty unusual number for those central city banks.
    当时大约是中午时分，为了兑现一张支票，上午我提前下了班。我一路走到银行，发现那儿只有十来个顾客，这个数字对市中心的银行来说是相当不寻常的。