When they got home, Jane cooked their dinner in the microwave oven and without realizing it, cooked her fiance's wallet as well.

回家后，简用微波炉煮了晚饭，无意中之中把她未婚夫的钱包也一起煮了。

Modern sculpture rarely surprises us any more.

现代雕塑不再使我们感到惊讶了。

This greatly reduced the speed of the ship,

这样一来，大大降低了船的航速。

When he learnt that he would be sent abroad, he returned to the farm and his father hid him until the end of the war.

当他了解自己将被派遣出国时，他逃回农场，父亲把他藏了起来，直到战争结束。

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，

We had spent several days in a small town and visited a number of old churches in the vicinity.

我们在一座小镇上逗留了几天，参观了附近的许多古老的教堂。