1. In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and,
    和平时期,当生意萧条时,霍克伍德便带领士兵进入某个城邦,

2. It seemed certain that she would be the first ship home, but during the race she had a lot of bad luck.
    看来，它首先返抵英国是确信无疑的了，但它却在比赛中连遭厄运。

3. If, however, you were holding an open air garden party or a fete it would be equally possible to insure yourself in the event of bad weather.
    如果你要举办一次露天游园会或盛宴，为避免碰上不好的天气而遭受损失也同样可以保险，

4. It is said that if anyone touches the tree, he will have bad luck; if he picks a leaf, he will die.
    据说，谁要是触摸了这棵树，谁就会交上恶运；如果谁摘了一片树叶，谁就会死去。

5. I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite.
    我具备了戒烟者通常表现出来的所有症状：脾气暴躁和食欲旺盛。

6. It had been a very bad summer for most people and he had not fared better than the rest.
    对大多数人来说，这是个很糟糕的夏天，他也不比其他人幸运。

7. If the "bad air" of swamps should be responsible, experiments would give the answer.
    如果沼泽湿地的“坏空气”有责任的话，那么实验会给出答案。

8. I would imagine myself entering and leaving them, and just that — entering and leaving over and over again — would see me through a bad feeling I did not have a name for.
    我会想象自己在这些地方进进出出——反反复复地进出这些地方——就是这种想象帮助我克服了我无以名状的坏心情。

9. I do not turn around. I stare ahead waiting to pay. I try not to reveal I feel anxiety just because a black man has walked up behind me in a gas station in a bad neighborhood and he does not have a car.
    他曾试图抢劫我，可这一点并不重要。一个人因为钱而死，不一定是我的钱或者是他的钱，就是钱。是谁给他的生命如此标价的呢？

10. Ideally, people would like to know when an earthquake is going to happen and how bad it will be.
    从理想上说，人们希望知道地震什么时候发生，破坏程度如何。