1. Wearing masks and costumes, they often impersonated other people, animals, or supernatural beings, and mined the desired effect success in hunt or battle, the coming rain, the revival of the Sun – as an actor might.

　　戴著面具身著盛裝的人們，經(jīng)常扮演各種其他人物、動物或超自然生靈，并且作為一個扮演者所能做的，就是期盼一個在狩獵或戰(zhàn)役中獲勝、降雨的來臨，陽光的重現(xiàn)的結(jié)果。

　　2.But these factors do not account for the interesting question of how there came to be such a concentration of pregnant ichthyosaurs in a particular place very close to their time of giving birth.

　　但是這些事實不能解釋這個令人感興趣的問題，就是為什么在一個特殊的靠近他們出生的地方如此的集中了這么多懷孕的魚龍。

　　3.A series of mechanical improvements continuing well into the nineteenth century, including the introduction of pedals to sustain tone or to soften it, the perfection of a metal frame, and steel wire of the finest quality, finally produced an instruments capable of myriad tonal effects from the most delicate harmonies to an almost orchestral fullness of sound, from a liquid, singing tone to a ship, percussive brilliance.

　　十九世紀一系列持續(xù)的機械進步，包括踏板的傳入、金屬結(jié)構(gòu)的完善和鋼絲最完美的質(zhì)量，最后產(chǎn)生了一種能容納無數(shù)音調(diào)-從最精致的和弦到一個成熟管弦的聲音或從一個清澈的歌聲到輝煌的敲擊樂的效果-的樂器。

　　4.Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1972 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent.

　　雖然我們習(xí)慣于談到1972年以前的電影是無聲的，但用一句完全感性的話來說電影從來就不是沒有聲音的。