Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there,

她突然问父亲为什么把这么多的旧报纸锁在柜子里，

adopted by banks, of printing the customer's name on his cheques.

某些银行已采用把储户姓名印在支票上的作法。

It is animals and plants which lived in or near water whose remains are most likely to be preserved,

只有生活在水中或水边的动植物尸体最有可能被保存下来，

It was the idea of supporting a craft on a 'pad',or cushion, of low-pressure air, ringed with a curtain of higher pressure air.

用一个气垫来支撑船体，低压空或软垫，软垫周围用高压空气环绕。

Where the cost of government is high, resources for development are correspondingly low.

凡是政府管理费用高的地方，用于发展国家经济的资金就会相应地减少。

all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun;

他们无不承认，一旦"旅程开始，目的地"常有急剧的变化。