1. It is a strange thought, but I believe a correct one, that twenty or thirty pages of ideas and information would be capable of turning the present-day world upside down, or even destroying it. 这是个离奇的想法。不过我认为这个想法是正确的。
2. I decided that I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere. 我想一定是什么地方拐错了弯儿。
3. In the slave-cabin, he would point out a banjo or a guitar and say one syllable, ko, and in time the little girl came to associate ko with a banjo or a guitar. 在奴隶居住的小木屋里,他会指着一个班卓琴或是一把吉他用一个音节ko来代替。经过一段时间,小女孩开始把ko和班卓琴或吉他联系起来。
4. I'm not complaining, only making a point. 我不是在抱怨谁,只是在表明一种观点。
5. In this stage, you have reached a point where you actually feel good because you have learned enough to understand the new culture. 在这个阶段里你达到了真正感觉良好的境界,因为你已经学到了很多东西, 已经能理解这新的文化了。
6. In future, if you want to know what time it is there might not be much point asking a policeman. 今后,如果想知道时间,去问警察恐怕会没有用。
7. In no way discouraged, he insists the most important point to establish is that Imedeen actually works. 他毫不气馁,坚持说要确立的最重要的一点就是"伊美婷"实际上是有效的。