1. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden.
    司机看见一块蛋糕从天而降，紧急刹车。

2. She snatched the astonished Nicky up and held him high in the air.
    她一把抓起受到惊吓的尼克，把他高高举起来。

3. Something I had always known — the way I knew my skin was the brown color of a nut rubbed repeatedly with a soft cloth, or the way I knew my own name — something I took completely for granted, "the sun is shining, the air is warm" — was not
    某些我一直知道的东西——就象知道自己的皮肤像是用软布反复摩擦后的那种坚果棕色，或者就象知道我自己的名字——某种我完全把它当作理所当然的东西——"阳光灿烂，空气暖和",——居然会并非如此。

4. Pollution from smoke and dust vitiates the air .
    烟尘的污染使空气污浊。

5. People travelling long distances frequently have to decide whether they would prefer to go by land, sea, or air.
    出远门的人常常需要决定是走旱路、水路，还是坐飞机。

6. Mainframe computers were very large indeed, often occupying whole air-conditioned rooms,
    计算机主机确实很大，常常占据了装有空调的多间房间，

7. Meanwhile, they should encourage those among us who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.
    与此同时，他们对我们中的那些游不了5码就已喘不过气来的人应该是种鼓舞。

8. Marshal Goering boasted, "This is the historic hour when our air force for the first time delivered its bombs right into the enemy's heart."
    戈林元帅曾吹嘘说："这是我们空军第一次把炸弹直接投入敌人心脏的历史性时刻。"

9. My G-suit, now fully filled with air, compressed my legs to force the blood back into the upper part of my body.
    我的G服现在已经充满了气，紧紧地压住我的双腿，逼迫血液流回身体的上半部。

10. But belongs to the air, travelling it may be six thousand miles to and from its northern nesting home, feeding its flown young as it flies,
    在空中十分自如，可以飞行6，000英里，可以飞往北方做窝的老家，再从老家飞回；一边飞一边喂养会飞的雏燕，甚至在顶风时也能在气流中滑翔，似乎气流在帮它前进。这些鸟对我们是有益的，