1. As the time and cost of making a chip drop to a few days and a few hundred dollars,
    由于制造一块芯片的时间已缩短至几天，费用也只有几百美元，

2. Any ship that crosses the Pacific is accompanied for many days by the smaller albatross,
    任何一艘横度太平洋的轮船都会有一种小信天翁伴随飞行许多天。

3. A few days later, she sent a boy to the workman to ask him if his name was Hans Bussman.
    几天后，她派了一个男孩去问那人是否叫汉斯.巴斯曼。

4. ´Everyone´s losing money these days,´ he said.
    "现在大家都在丢钱，"他说。

5. After seven days of this I went to a party.
    这样过了7天以后，我去参加一次聚会。

6. A few weeks with one firm, a few days with another, then out of a job, then on again for a month perhaps, and so on.
    在这家公司干几个星期，在另一家干上几天，然后没有活干，接着也许又能找到工作干上个把月，一个夏天就这样，一会儿有活干，一会儿没活干。

7. A day as we take it is daytime and night-time together, but for a long, long time people did not think of days like we do.
    我们所指的一天包括白天和黑夜。但是有很长很长一段时间，人们对一天的看法并不与我们相同。

8. Almost as soon as people began counting "days", they must have noticed the changes in the moon.
    几乎在人们开始计算“天”的同时，他们一定已经注意到了月亮的变化。

9. And days do not fit evenly into years, since the actual journey of the earth round the sun takes 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 46 seconds.
    而且天数也无法平均地分配到年中，因为地球绕太阳转一圈的实际航程需要花费365天5小时49分46秒。

10. A few days later, Humboldt was to remember this piece of advice.
    几天后，洪堡就又回想起了这个忠告。