1. The moment the half-hour was up, Brooks rose. 半小时一到,布鲁克斯就起来了。
2. The next day there was still no ship in sight, so Dudley told Brooks to avert his gaze and he motioned to Stevens that the boy, Parker, had better be killed. 第二天，仍然看不见一条船，于是达德利叫布鲁克斯把视线移开，并示意史蒂文斯，最好把那个叫帕克的男孩杀掉。
3. Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers. 布鲁克斯女士可能怀疑，抑或没有怀疑过手下的记者是如何获取新闻的，但她并未质疑、指导，也未得到任何可追溯、有记录的答案。
4. Like her immediate predecessors, Zora Neale Hurston and Gwendolyn Brooks, she focused her novel on an ordinary Black woman's search for identity within the context of a Black community. 就像她的前辈佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿和格温德林·布鲁克斯一样，她把小说的重点放在一个普通的黑人女性在黑人社区的背景下寻找身份。
5. One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived. 其中令人惊讶的发现是丽贝卡·布鲁克斯对她的新闻工作室所发生的事情知之甚少，她很少过问、事实上她从不询问新闻故事是怎样得来的。
