I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop.
我心中想着这位我从未谋面的女子，在四十多年前，从种下第一株水仙花球根开始，把她自己所想象的美丽和快乐带到一个隐蔽的山峰。
But under pressure from matrons not much older than herself - for a fieldman's wages being as high at twenty one as at forty, marriage was early here - Tess at length consented to go.
但是她迫于年纪比她大不了多少的妇女的压力——因为一个种地的工人，在二十岁时挣的工钱同四十岁的工人挣的工钱一样多——苔丝最终还是同意去了。
The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack sank many ships.
美国自1941年12月日本飞机偷袭美军在夏威夷珍珠港海军基地后，正式投入到第二次世界大战中，日本的这次偷袭击沉了美国许多战舰。
I remember at one point during our vacation together, my friend, his girl, and I were in the car for forty minutes.
我记得当我们在一起的假期的某时，我的朋友，他女友，还有我在车里呆了40分钟。
And though when I was younger I believed I wanted to have a child, I was not surprised to find myself at thirty-five, and then forty, without one.
尽管我年轻的时候相信我想要个孩子，而我到了35岁，40岁的时候依然没有孩子，我却不是太吃惊。
Students at Stanford University recorded thousands of coin tosses with high-speed cameras and discovered the chances are approximately fifty-one to forty-nine.
斯坦福大学的学生用高速摄像机记录了成千上万次抛硬币的过程，发现正面朝上与正面朝下的概率大约是51%对49%。
At age forty-one I alone had witnessed such a vast variety of cases of impermanence.
四十一岁的我，一个人，就亲见了这麽样形形色色的无常例子。
I could not help but look up in awe at the building that took only one year and forty-five days to build.
想到修筑这幢大厦仅花了一年四十五天的时间，一种敬佩之情从心底油然而生。
I remember turning into a forest trackway one day, and seeing five or six deer just thirty or forty metres away - standing, looking back at me.
我记得有一天在森林里行走，看见距我三四十米处有五六只鹿——站着，回头看着我。
One year at a private medical college can cost forty thousand dollars or more.
在一所私立医学院校一年要花费40000美元或者更多。
One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years.
一个大约四十岁，正值精力旺盛的时期。这个年龄段的男人很少会有被与年轻女子相爱并成婚的幻想：这种梦是留到我们年老时聊以慰藉的。
One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the of our declining years.
这个年龄段的男人很少会有被与年轻女子相爱并成婚的幻想：这种梦是留到我们年老时聊以慰藉的。
Forty-eight million people, or 20.3 percent of people 12 and over in the United States, have hearing loss in at least one ear;
研究人员发现，全美12岁及12岁以上人口总数的20.3%，也就是4800万人，至少有一只耳朵是听力受损的；
For forty years, with an occasional year at home in America, we worked in China, and during that time our two sons and a daughter were born to us, of whom only one son survives.
整整40年中，除了偶尔回美国一年半载外，我们一直在中国工作。在那期间，我们生了两个儿子和一个女儿，但只活下来一个儿子。
At least one player from every major league team will wear the number forty-two.
每一个球队至少有一名球员将会穿着42号球衣。
One day in 1958 I looked at myself in a small shaving mirror I kept in my cell and saw a forty-year-old man looking back at me.
1958年某一天，当我在牢房中照着刮胡子用的小镜子时，镜中有个四十岁的中年人与我对望。
One day in 1958 I looked at myself in a small shaving mirror I kept in my cell and saw a forty-year-old man looking back at me.
1958年某一天，当我在牢房中照着刮胡子用的小镜子时，镜中有个四十岁的中年人与我对望。
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