Excuse me. Are the hourse-drawn streetcars free?

对不起，这些马车是免费乘坐的吗？

Generally speaking, newspapers follow the American way, but conference reports and schoolbooks use British spelling.

一般地说，报纸采用美国英语的拼法，但是会议报告和教科书都采用英国英语的拼法。

Why didn't you tell me then?

为什么那时不告诉我呢？

Is there anything else that I ought to get?

我还该弄点别的什么东西吗？

Do you think it's possible that it will happen?

你认为有可能建厂吗？

Well, I think at the beginning we'd rather have some fairly quiet and peaceful music.

好，我想，开始时，我们宁可听些柔和舒缓的音乐。