1. A short while ago, my sister helped me to carry one of my old bookcases up the stairs.
    几分钟前，我妹妹帮我把一个旧书橱抬上了楼。

2. A short time before, great trees had covered the countryside for miles around.
    就在不久之前，参天大树还覆盖着方圆数英里的土地。

3. As Mr. Ross said at the time: "If the patient has no other future short of this transplant, we think we are morally justified, in the present state of our knowledge, in doing it."
    正如罗斯先生当时所说：“如果除了做移植手术之外，病人别无出路，那么我们认为，在现有的医学条件下，施行这种手术在道义上是无可非议的。”

4. According to one story, when a government official visited the plant and asked about the letters, a creative employee told him "US" was short for "Uncle Sam" Wilson.
    传说有一回，有个政府官员来参观加工厂，问及这些字母的含义，一个想像丰富的雇员告诉他，"US"是"山姆大叔"威尔逊的缩写。

5. After my grandfather died, my grandmother lived, more than ever, through her children.
    外公死后，外婆比以往更加依赖她的孩子们。

6. Actually, he lived a mile, or 20 minutes' walk, from his nearest neighbor; half a mile from the railroad; three hundred yards from a busy road.
    实际上，他最近的邻居离他只有一英里，走路也就20分钟；铁路离他半英里；交通繁忙的大路距他300码。

7. A short time later, the deal was approved.
    不久，这笔生意获准了。

8. A labor inspector took the Disney organization to court this week, contending that the company's dress and appearance code — which bans moustaches, beards, excess weight, short skirts and fancy stockings — offends individual liberty and violates Fren
    一位劳工问题督察员本周将迪斯尼公司告上了法庭，他声称公司的着装规定--不准蓄胡须，不准体重超标，不准穿超短裙和花哨的袜子--侵犯了个人自由，也违反了法国的劳工法。

9. Yes! Two long rings, two short rings.
    是的!两长两短的铃声。

10. She had lived in the flat for thirty years and was a veritable magpie at hoarding;
    她在这套房间里已经住了三十年了，而在收藏家私方面，她是个地地道道的收藏者。