The only regular visitors to the monastery in winter are parties of skiers who go there at Christmas and Easter.

冬天常来修道院参观的只有一批批滑雪者。他们在圣诞节或复活节到那儿去。

Then I added with a smile,

我微笑地接着说，

During a radio programme, a company of biscuit manufacturers once asked listeners to bake biscuits and send them to their factory.

有一次，在电台播放的节目里，一个生产饼干的公司请听众烘制饼干送到他们的工厂去。

The cry had certainly come form one of the chimneys, but as there were so many of them, the fire fighters could not be certain which one it was.

喊叫声肯定是从烟囱里传出来的，然而，因为烟囱太多，消防队员无法确定到底是哪一个。

They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to writing.

它们有着一定的含义，因为它们已接近古代人的文字形式。

The family lived in Aberdeen, a small town of 23,000 inhabitants in South Dakota.

这户人家住在南达科他州一个人口为23，000 的小镇上，镇名为阿拜丁。