The Americans would happily reach one accord on standards for medical devices and them hammer out different pacts covering,say,

美国人很愿意就医疗器械的标准达成一个协议，然后推敲出不同的合同，用以涵盖 --比如说

He gives the bank specimens of his signature,

他把自己签名的样本交给银行，

Over the periods their saliva, a mild, digestive juice like our own, was converted into a poison that defies analysis even today.

蛇的唾液本来和我们人的消化液一样柔和，但经过漫长的时间，演变成了今天仍无法分析清楚的毒液。

The first tests on the Solent in 1959 caused a sensation.

在1959年，在苏伦特海峡进行的首次试航引起了轰动。

that if we escape wars, accidents and diseases we shall eventually 'die of old age',

既使我们能避开战争、意外的事故和各种疾病，我们最终也会"老死；

from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.

脱离了对自己灵魂最深处世界的探索。