The Old Gentleman carefully counted out $1.30, and left fifteen cents more for the waiter.

老先生仔仔细细地数出三毛钱，还给了侍者十五分做小费。

The couple bought a block of land in August.

这对夫妇8月份购买了地。

They appear randomly, often in the most tantalizing fashion.

它们东西地出现，往往令人备尝可望而不可即之苦。

There are swift-flowing rivers which dash through jagged canons; and there are enormous plains, which in winter are white with snow, and in summer are gray with the saline alkali dust.

也有湍急的河流，在山石嵯峨的峡谷之间奔流；也有无边的荒原，冬天积雪遍地，夏日则呈现出灰色的硷地。

No matter how tightly we grab a rock or a branch, no matter how fiercely we swim against the stream, the river still carries us in a certain direction, whether we like it or not.

无论我们多么紧紧地抓住岩石或枝，无论我们多么激烈地逆流而上，河流仍然会把我们带到某个方向，不管我们喜欢与否。

At which point, Lady Luck dropped an utterly undeserved gold nugget right into MacGregor's lap.

就在这时，幸运神很不合理地把金丢到了麦格雷格尔的腿上。

They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely, and glittering in the brightness of the sun.

他们走在用同样绿大理石铺砌的人行道上，这是用的翡翠紧密地衔接起来造成的，行行的，被明亮的太阳照得灿烂闪烁。

Herbert took up one of the blocks and threw it fiercely atpussy.

赫伯特拿起积木，拼命地扔向那只小猫。

The appearance of a monolith in a hinterland is a satisfying reminder that the world remains very large.

腹地出现巨石满意地提醒我们，世界仍然很大。

Pope Clement buys a field and buries 11,000 people.

克莱芒教皇买下地 安葬了万千民众。

This was the first field I can remember my father's taking me to see.

这是我记忆中，父亲带我去看的第地。

I just lost the lot on Clinton Avenue.

我刚刚丢了克林顿大道上的地。

My point is, you can buy land right down to the waterline.

我是说 你可以在水线边买地。

It had been a while since Harry had seen him out of Ron's pocket, and he was unpleasantly surprised to see that Scabbers, once so fat, was now very skinny; patches of fur seemed to have fallen out too.

自从哈利看到它从罗恩衣袋里出来到此刻已经有些时候了，他看到以前那么肥胖的斑斑现在瘦得只剩皮包骨头了，他感到惊讶而不快；斑斑的毛似乎也在地脱落。

Saving furiously, and with regularised legal status in Colombia, the family eventually bought land in El Zulia, a small village near the Venezuelan border. Brick by brick she built a house there.

凭借在哥伦比亚合法身份，全家拼命攒钱，最终在委内瑞拉边境附近的个小村庄埃尔苏利亚买了地。她在那里砖瓦地盖起了房子。

There's a lot of people in here, he knows you're here and he's just saying okay, well I'm just going to try to work out my stress by chewing aggressively on a yak cheese thing.

这里有很多人，它知道你在这里，它只是说，好吧，嗯，我只是想通过使劲地咀嚼牦牛奶酪来缓解我的压力。

He drove his big tractor over a piece, and he didn't even think about it until he saw the news, like: " Oh, there's space debris in my field that's now growing canola or whatever, " right?

他开着大拖拉机经过地，直到他看到新闻才想起这件事：“哦，我地里有太空碎片，它上面正长着油菜之类的，”对吧？

You can imagine, friends, people dancing with a lot of energy, and there's a rug or a carpet on the ground, and they're dancing so hard that their feet, their shoes, actually cause the rug to rip, okay?

你可以想象， 朋友们， 人们正充满活力地跳舞，地上有地毯或地垫，他们跳得如此激烈，以至于他们的脚和鞋子实际上把地毯给踩破了，好吗？

We are showing the journey of a young couple, Dylan and I, buying a land and eventually building a house because I feel like everyone's dream is to eventually have a cabin in the woods.

我们正在展示对年轻夫妇的旅程，迪伦和我，买了地，最后建了座房子，因为我觉得每个人的梦想最终都是在森林里有间小木屋。

The wife of Ali Baba had scarcely turned her back, when Cassim's wife, looking at the bottom of the measure, was astonished to see a piece of gold sticking to it.

阿里巴巴的妻子刚转过身来，卡西姆的妻子就惊讶地看到金子粘在上面。