1. Pretending to speak seriously, one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the station.
    其中一个工人装模作样地问道，在被带往警察局之前，是否可以打一个电话。

2. Passing the mayor´s office, I saw people standing before the little bulletin board.
    经过镇公所，我看见一群人站在小布告牌前。

3. Pushing off the diving board with my legs, I lifted my arms and shoulders back, and knew immediately I would be close to the board and might hit my hands. I tried to correct myself as I turned, spreading my hands wide apart.
    我用脚蹬跳板，臂膀向后举起，但马上意识到身体下落时可能会靠近跳板，碰伤手。转动身体时，我努力纠正动作，尽量把胳膊张开。

4. Mrs. Richards realized that it must be the man from the Electricity Board who had come to read the metre.
    理查兹夫人这才想到一定是供电局来人查电表了。

5. Many of the tourists on board had begun bargaining with the tradesmen,
    船上许多游客开始同商贩讨价还价起来，

6. Many new arrivals to the States will miss the opening exchanges of a business call, for example.
    许多刚到美国的人会怀念诸如商务拜访等场合开始时的寒喧。

7. “Liu,” I said in haste, “Just call me Liu. My last, no, my first name is too hard to pronounce.”
    “刘，”我赶紧说，”“叫我刘就可以了。我的姓，不，我的名字很难念。”

8. “Instead, you have spent an exceedingly dull evening at the opera with a fat man who, instead of having messages slipped into his hand by dark-eyed beauties, gets only an ordinary telephone call making an appointment in his room.
    "然而，你却在歌剧院里陪着个胖子打发了一个极度无聊的夜晚。根本没有什么黑眸美女偷偷将情报塞到他手里，他只是接了一个普通的电话，约在他住的地方见面。

9. “A phone call,” said one of the policemen, “would have done it.”
    有名警察说："一个电话就够了。"

10. B.You call your lawyer to discuss a possible lawsuit (诉讼案件).
    b.你打电话给你的律师，讨论发生诉讼的可能性。