1. It turns to face the sun and spins away again every twenty-four hours.
    它每二十四小时交替着面对太阳或背对太阳各一次。

2. It contains not only the famous five-thousand-seat banqueting hall, and twenty odd reception rooms each as big as normal ballroom, but the Great Hall itself.
    它不仅具有一个五千座位的著名的宴会厅，二十多个像普通舞厅大小的会客厅，而且还有一个大会堂。

3. 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。

4. I was twenty days hacking and hewing at it at the bottom.
    砍断它的根部用了二十天。

5. It was big enough to carry six-and-twenty men, and therefore big enough to carry me and all my cargo.
    这只船可容纳二十六个人，因此足可以装下我和所有的东西。

6. 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。

7. I was twenty-four years old.
    我当时24岁。

8. 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。

9. It will take you forward into the twenty-first century without having to check your tracks in a rear-view mirror. My grandparents taught me that.
    这样，你在跨入21世纪的时候，用不着去为自己过去的所作所为而抱憾。这就是我祖父祖母教给我的做人道理。

10. Franz Bussman, found a brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before.
    巴斯曼如何找到了据信已在20年前死去的兄弟的事。