邁菲事件便是個很好的例子。 The Michael Fay episode is an example.
頭一集很好－－下一集還得等一個星期。 The first episode was good-- now we have to wait a week for the next.
通貨膨脹中的一個階段，價格以很高的速度增長而貨幣迅速貶值。 an episode of inflation in which prices increase at an increasing rate and currency rapidly loses value.
最近一件事就生在今年10月1日兒童節這一天，為讓孩子過一個愉快的節日，我女兒帶孩子出門買很多東西。 The latest episode took place on October 1, the Children's Day. My daughter took the boy out on a shopping trip.
非常特殊的、危急的atc形勢，比如一次危險接近，能在經性記憶中保持很長時間。就象我們個人生的危險經保存在經性記憶中一樣。 Episodic memories of highly specific, critical ATC situations, such as a near mid-air collision, can persist for years, just as do our episodic memories for critical personal experiences.
現在，已經很少人能夠清楚分政治和宗教之間的界綫，任何理性的分析都將徒勞無功。 Alas, when no one can see the fine line between politics and religion anymore, any level-headed ditch to reason will prove futile.
這些關廂村鎮有些還是很大的。首先是從小塔作為起點的聖維多鎮，那有一座在比埃弗爾河上的單拱橋，一座可以看到胖子路易墓志銘(éｐｉｔａｐｈｉｕｍｌｕｄｉｖｉｃｉｇｒｏｓｓｉ)的修道院，還有一座有着八角尖頂、尖頂旁有四個十一世紀小樓的教堂(這樣的教堂現在在埃唐普還有一座，還沒有拆毀)； Some of these faubourgs were important: there were,first, starting from la Tournelle, the Bourg Saint-Victor, with its one arch bridge over the Bi鑦re, its abbey where one could read the epitaph of Louis le Gros, ~epitaphium Ludovici Grossi~,and its church with an octagonal spire, flanked with four little bell towers of the eleventh century (a similar one can be seen at Etampes; it is not yet destroyed);
很遺憾，因為我在香港另有公務，所以不能親自出席今天的慶典。 Alas, I can't be with you myself because I have commitments in Hong Kong.
不幸的是下一整天的雨；很遺憾，我不能再呆。 unfortunately it rained all day; alas, I cannot stay.
同志們很多是從上海亭子間⑾來的；從亭子間到革命根地，不但是經受不了兩地區，而且是經受不了兩個歷史時代。 A good number of comrades have come here from the garrets of Shanghai, and in coming from those garrets to the revolutionary base areas, they have passed not only from one kind of place to another but from one historical epoch to another.
觀看賽馬會的人很多。 the Epsom race meeting was an important social event.
更讓人感到不安的是這些企業很多是喻戶曉和人們所信賴的公司，而涉嫌舞弊的竟是公司的最高層决策者。 This scandal is all the more alarming because the companies implicated were mostly trusted household names and the perpetrators were their highest level executives.
紅軍中的絶對平均主義，有一個時期展得很厲害。 Absolute equalitarianism became quite serious in the Red Army at one time.
這些都證明紅軍官兵中的絶對平均主義還很嚴重。 Absolute equalitarianism, as shown in these examples, is still very serious among officers and soldiers of the Red Army.
他看起來很驚人。 He looked alarming.
秋季作物看來收成也會同樣很好。 Autumn crops promised to be equally good.
當飛機上的燈一下子熄滅時，旅客顯得很緊張，但當機長告訴他們這衹不過是一次電氣故障，很快就會修好時，他們放下心來。 The passengers became alarmed when the lights went out on the plane, but the captain put their minds at rest when he told them it was only a minor electrical fault and it would soon be repaired.
“農民萬歲，這些人也算作萬歲嗎？”富農示很大的惶惑。 "What?" wondered the rich peasants, greatly perplexed and alarmed, "'Long live the peasants!'Are these people now to be regarded as emperors?"
她在長期的苦難中心情一直都很平靜. She maintained her equanimity throughout her long ordeal.
面對着述荒謬無禮的行為，很難處之泰然。 It was difficult to remain equanimous in the face of such preposterous impertinence.
當今很多人把考試及格與受過教育等同起來。 "Nowadays, many people equate passing examinations with being educated."
赤道附近的氣壓很低。 Air pressure is low along the equator.
大猩猩棲居在赤道非洲的最大的類人猿（大猩猩），型粗壯，頭髮很粗，呈深棕色或黑色 The largest of the anthropoid apes(Gorilla gorilla) native to the forests of equatorial Africa, having a stocky body and coarse, dark brown or black hair.
剛果非洲中西部一國，在大西洋海岸有很短的海岸綫。它在1960年獨立前是法屬赤道非洲的一部分。拉柴維爾是其首都也是最大城市。人口1，912，429 A country of west-central Africa with a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. It was part of French Equatorial Africa before becoming independent in1960. Brazzaville is the capital and the largest city. Population,1, 912, 429.
當我跌倒的時候，我媽媽很驚慌。 My mother was alarmed when I fell over.
他們的騎都很高超。 They all showed extraordinary equestrian skill.
“這個山𠔌很危險，”阿蘭說，希望嚇住她，引起她一種反應。 “The valley’s dangerous,”said Alan, hoping to frighten her, to provoke reaction.
在穩定性和變化性之間通常很難找到適當的平衡。 It is often difficult to find a proper equilibrium between stability and variability.
這就引出兩個很有意思的問題：艾倫·格林斯潘真的是神嗎？ This raises two interesting questions: Is Alan Greenspan in fact a god?
英國獸醫協會研究馬科動物的女言人萊斯麗-巴外斯-曼路說："野生狀態下，矮馬和斑馬共同相處的可能性極少，二者很少有機會相遇。" "Ponies and zebras very rarely share the same environment even in the wild. A meeting between the two is very rare in the natural environment," said Lesley Barwise-Munro, spokeswoman for the British Equine Veterinary Association.