11. In the garden the cats, not susceptible to fears about taking root, closed their

drugged eyes again.

花園中的貓，沒有害怕生根的憂慮（作者借此烘托諾拉不能行走的恐懼心理），

它們在麻藥的作用下又閉上了眼睛。

12. Rural Affairs Minister Eamon O’Cuiv is proposing a bus service to shuttle people

to and from country bars as a crackdown on?drunk driving?threatens pubs that are

the traditional meeting places in many communities.

由于（政府的）嚴(yán)懲酒后駕駛行動威脅到鄉(xiāng)村酒館業(yè)的生存，而鄉(xiāng)村又是許多

社區(qū)的傳統(tǒng)聚會場所，因此愛爾蘭農(nóng)村事務(wù)部大臣埃蒙·奧奎夫提出開通公交車服務(wù)

接送那些往返于鄉(xiāng)村酒吧的人。

13. Given these stereotypes, it is no wonder that beauty enjoys, at best, a rather

mixed reputation.

由于存在這些老套的思想，美的名聲至多不過是毀譽(yù)參半就不足為奇了。

14. While she sat there in her usual relaxed majesty there came at the door a knock

which I immediately recognized as the?subdued appeal?of a model out of work.

當(dāng)她坐在那兒，帶著平日里放松后的威嚴(yán)，剛有人敲門，我立馬聽出，原來是一

位失了業(yè)的模特兒怯生生地想找活干。

15. As English was largely a northern language, the forced application of Latin

grammar to its analysis ended inevitably inadequacies and frequent exceptions to

rules.

大體講來，英文本是一種北方的語言，強(qiáng)行用拉丁語法去分析英文，其結(jié)果當(dāng)然

不免要有一些牽強(qiáng)，更隨時(shí)要遇到例外。

16. When paid a dollar, they said: 付了他們一美元后，他們說：