Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics.

报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供成立一些关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。

Bleriot set off half an hour later.

半小时后便正式出发了。

One lady brought in a biscuit on a wheelbarrow.

一位女士用手推车运来一个饼干，

He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg.

晚会结束时，他嘴里还在嘟哝着医院的事，突然踩到一块冰上滑倒了，摔断了左腿。

Nothing can be compared, he maintains, with the first cockcrow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures.

他坚持认为，凌晨雄鸡第一声啼叫，黎明时分小鸟吱喳欢叫，冉冉升起的朝阳染红树木、牧场，此番美景无与伦比。

You will not have to spend the next few days recovering from a long and arduous journey.

用不着因为漫长的旅途的辛苦而花几天时间休息来恢复精神。