1. There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer.
    甚至有这样的故事：训练了一半的小象，由于不可避免的情况与他们的主人分离后，竟拒绝吃食，消瘦至死。

2. They caught lobster and fish every day, and, as one of them put it ´ate like kings´.
    他们天天捕捉龙虾和鱼，正如其中一位所说，吃得"像国王一样好"。

3. The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since.
    教堂的钟很大，以前不分昼夜打点报时，但很多年前遭到毁坏，从此便无声无息了。

4. The following day, however, the doctor consoled him by telling him that his chances of being able to leave hospital in time for New Year celebrations were good.
    然而，第二天，医生安慰他说，出院欢度新年的可能性还是很大的，

5. The day after the birth of the five children, an aeroplane arrived in Aberdeen bringing sixty reporters and photographers.
    五胞胎降生第二天，一架飞机飞抵阿拜丁，随机带来60名记者与摄影师。

6. The survey revealed a large number of sources of noise that we really dislike. Lawn mowers whining on a summer´s day,
    这个调查揭示了我们所不喜欢的大量的噪间的来源：夏天呜呜作响的割草机，公寓楼里深夜聚会的喧哗声，

7. This was more than we could bear, so we decided to spend our last day exploring the countryside.
    人多得使我们难以忍受，于是我们决定利用最后一天去乡间一游。

8. Though my aunt pursued what was, in those days, an enlightened policy, in that she never allowed her domestic staff to work more than eight hours a day, she was extremely difficult to please.
    姑妈待佣人在当时算是开明的，从来不让佣人每天工作超过8小时，但他们很难使她称心如意。

9. The inspector then asked the old lady to try to check what was missing by the next day and advised her not to stay alone in the flat for a few nights.
    巡官请老妇人在次日之前设法查清丢了些什么，并劝她几夜之内不要独自一人在公寓过夜。

10. They leave unwanted objects in drawers, cupboards and attics for years, in the belief that they may one day need just those very things.
    他们专门收藏那些只能被称作杂货的东西。他们在抽屉里，碗柜中、阁楼上堆放着一些不用的东西，一放就是好几年，