1. One end of a pencil is tapered off to a point .
    铅笔的一端逐渐尖细成一尖头。

2. On turning eagerly to the text, one learns that the lady was a typist who found the sound of office typewriters worried her more and more until eventually she had to go into a mental hospital.
    当人们急切地看完正文后，便知道这女子是个打字员，办公室打字机的声音使她越来越烦，最终住进了精神病医院。

3. One last point remained to be cleared up: Was the African ever called Toby?
    最后需要澄清的一点是：老非洲曾经叫托比吗？

4. One person likes quiet, while the other person spends two hours a day practicing the trumpet, or turns up his sound system to the point where the whole room vibrates.
    一个人喜欢安静，而另一个却每天练习两个小时的小号，或将音响开得很大，声音响得连整个房间都振动了。

5. Officials point out, for example, that Sleeping Beauty's castle, the central feature of the theme park, is based not on Hollywood, as some might think, but on the illustrations in a medieval European book.
    公司的行政人员指出，例如，睡美人的城堡这个主题公园的中心建筑不是像一些人所想的那样根据好莱坞的作品创造的，而是根据一本欧洲中世纪的书中的插图建造的。

6. Laszlo Biro invented the ball-point pen.
    拉斯洛・拜罗发明了圆珠笔.

7. Then up into the wave, then forward with it and then----as the wave leaves the particles behind----back to its starting point again.
    然后推上波浪，随着波浪移动，然后 -- 当波浪把微粒留在身后时 -- 又回到出发点。

8. It´s a moot point whether men or women are better drivers.
    男女司机孰优孰劣尚有争论.

9. I decided that I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere.
    我判断自己必定在某处拐错了弯。

10. Imagine a pen attached to the weight in such a way that its point rests upon a piece of paper on the floor. Imagine an earthquake shock shaking the floor, the paper, you and your hand.
    假定把一支笔拴在重物上，笔尖落在地板上的一张纸上，假定地震发生了，地板、纸、你和你的手都会动，重物和笔都却不运动。