| 81. | The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening. |
| 专家证实，美洲狮非被逼得走投无路，是决不会伤人的。事实上搜寻工作很困难，因为常常是早晨在甲地发现那只美洲狮，晚上却在20英里外的乙地发现它的踪迹。
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| 82. | A famous actor in a highly successful play was once cast in the role of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years. |
| 有一位名演员曾在一出极为成功的剧目中扮演一个贵族角色，这个贵族已在巴士底狱被关押了20年。
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| 83. | When I was a boy, my grandfather told me how a German taxi driver, Franz Bussman, found a brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before. |
| 当我是个孩子的时候，我祖父给我讲了一位德国出租汽车司机弗朗兹。巴斯曼如何找到了据信已在20年前死去的兄弟的事。
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| 84. | Glancing at his map, he informed us that the next village was a mere twenty miles away. |
| 他瞥了一眼地图，告诉我们前面再走不到20英里就是一个村庄。
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| 85. | He was glad to get away with a mere twenty pounds and he beat a hasty retreat, clutching the precious bottle under his arm. |
| 他庆幸自己只破费了20英镑便得以脱身。他把那宝贵的瓶子放在腋下夹着，溜之大吉。
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| 86. | Imagine a star up t twenty times larger, brighter, brighter and hotter than our own sun. |
| 设想一下，一颗恒星比我们的太阳还要大，还要亮，还要热20倍，
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| 87. | She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due, since her parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to miss it and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeys to meet her. |
| 在火车进站20分钟前她就进了车站。因为她的父母再三跟她说，如果误了这趟车，她的东道主朋友就得接她两趟，这是不应该的。
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| 88. | The most economical age to capture an elephant for training is between fifteen and twenty years, for it is then almost ready to undertake heavy work and can begin to earn its keep straight away. |
| 捕捉15至20岁之间年龄的大象进行驯象最为经济。 这个年龄的象差不多已能干重活，可以很快挣回饲养它的开支。
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| 89. | Twenty or thirty pages of information handed to any of the major world powers around the year 1925 would have been sufficient to change the course of world history. |
| 二三十页材料中的思想和情报会便当今的世界翻天覆地，甚至毁灭这个世界。这是个离奇的想法。
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| 90. | It is a strange thought, but I believe a correct one, that twenty or thirty pages of ideas and information would be capable of turning the present-day world upside down, or even destroying it. |
| 我常常试图想像这些纸上所写的东西，不过我是做不到的，因为我和你们大家一样，是当今世界上的凡人。
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