1. The error was 44 minutes and 56 seconds for each leap year, or 11 minutes and 14 seconds for each single year.
    每个闰年的误差就是44分56秒或是每年11分14秒。

2. Thus the year A.D. 2000 will be a leap year, but the year 2100 will not, nor was 1900.
    这样，公元2000年就是闰年，但2100年则不是，1900年也不是。

3. This Gregorian-calendar year, remarkably accurate as it is, is about 26 seconds too long.
    这种格列高利日历年虽然已十分精确，却还是长出了26秒。

4. Then the child has, as it were, private lessons all the year round, while an adult language-student has each week a limited number of hours which he generally shares with others.
    此外，我们可以说孩子一年到头都有私人教师给他上课，而成年的语言学习者每周只有有限的几小时，而且通常都是与他人一起分享上课时间。

5. This was why I didn't notice him the first year we worked together at the firm.
    这也就是为什么我们在公司里一起工作的第一年里我没有注意到他的原因。

6. The conflict enlarged last year when miners killed a group of Amazon Indians in order to seize their land.
    去年，矿工们为了争夺印第安人的土地而杀死了一群居住在亚马逊雨林里的印第安人后，冲突扩大了。

7. They are wearing high heels this year.
    今年她们在穿高跟鞋。

8. The procedure for determining that such unions are not tricks to obtain the treasured green card takes time (sometimes separating couples for more than a year, I later learned).
    要确认这种婚姻并不是为了取得宝贵的绿卡而耍的花招,需要费很长时间 (我后来知道，它有时会使夫妻分居1年多)。

9. They were in the same grade, even though Autumn was a year older.
    她俩同年级,尽管秋比桑迪大一岁。做作业时，

10. The eleven-year-old girl who dresses like a college student and the forty-year-old woman who dresses like a teenager are saying something through what they wear.
    一个十一岁的小姑娘穿得像个大学生，或是一个四十岁的女人穿得像个十几岁的少女，他们都在通过自己的穿着表达着什么。