The city was equipped with a drainage system, for a great many clay pipes were found beneath the narrow streets.

城里甚至还敷设了排水系统，因为在狭窄的街道底下发现了许许多多陶土制作的排水管道。

it is both simple and elegant, fulfilling its designer's dream to create 'an enormous object drawn as faintly as possible'.

但它的结构简单，造型优美，实现了设计者企图创造一个“尽量用细线条勾画出一个庞然大物”的梦想。

An advertisement which begins with the magic word FREE can rarely go wrong.

凡是用“免费”这个神奇的词开头的广告很少会失败的。

In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke witch would make an Englishman laugh to tears.

同样的道理，一则可以令英国人笑出泪来的笑话，俄国人听了可能觉得没有什么可笑之处。

Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the seasons.

历史学家迄今认为日历是随农业的问世而出现的，因为当时人们面临着了解四季的实际需要，

but unfortunately not all of us are born handymen.

但不幸的是，我们并非人人都是能工巧匠。