1、She felt in her handbag for the piece of paper on which her father had written down al the details of the journey and gave it to the porter.

她从钱包里摸出一张纸条，那上面有她父亲对这次旅行详细说明，她把这张纸条交给了搬运工。

2、We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders.

我们要十分感谢那些吃昆虫的鸟和兽，然而被它们所杀死的昆虫全部加在一起也只相当于蜘蛛所消灭的一小部分。

3、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。

4、Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.

石头是不会腐烂的。因此，尽管制造这些工具的人的骨头早已荡然无存，但远古时代的石头工具却保存了下来。

5、Indeed they can have a delightful surprise when they find something useful which they did uld be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country.

确实，一旦无意之中从自己的收藏品中找到某件有用的东西时，可以给人一种惊喜的感觉。

6、It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year wo1、Indeed they can have a delightful surprise when they find something useful which they did uld be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country.

据估计，在英国蜘蛛一年里所消灭昆虫的重量超过这个国家人口的总重量。