1. After crossing the Equator, the captain called in at a port to have a new rudder fitted, 跨越赤道后,船长将船停靠在一个港口,在那儿换了一只舵。
2. A new machine called ´The Revealer´ has been invented and it has been used to detect gold which has been buried in the ground. 一种叫"探宝器"的新机器已经发明出来,并被人们用来探测地下埋藏的金子。
3. At a village fair, I decided to visit a fortune-teller called Madam Bellinsky. 在一个乡村集市上,我决定去拜访一位称作别林斯夫人的算命人。
4. ´Your what?´ he called. "什么?"他大声问。
5. About 250 years ago, there was born a boy called John — the tenth child of a poor family in Scotland. 大约在250年前,苏格兰一个贫苦家庭的第十个孩子——约翰出生了。
6. A surgeon in Brussels called Andreas Vesalius and a French surgeon called Ambroise Pare both studied anatomy in the 16th century; but in order to get bodies to dissect they had to steal them by night from gallows or graves. 布鲁塞尔的一位叫韦萨里斯的外科医生和法国的一位外科医生帕雷都于16世纪研究了解剖学;但为了得到解剖用的尸体,他们不得不深更半夜到绞架台或墓地偷尸。
7. At the farthest end was someone they described as "the African", called Kin-tay. 据她们说,(我们家)最早的祖先是一位非洲人,名字叫肯泰。
8. Another type of defense mechanism is called “regression.” 另一种保护性办法称做”倒退法”。
9. A physicist called Bertha? A Pope Mel? 或是一个叫伯撒的物理学家呢?抑或是一个叫梅尔的教皇呢?