| 1. | The snow lay thick on the ground .
地上积雪很厚。 |
| 2. | Snow lay thick on the ground .
厚雪铺盖着大地。 |
| 3. | Last winter the snow lay thick on the ground
去年冬天，地上积雪很厚。 |
| 4. | Snow was lying thick on the ground
厚厚的积雪覆盖大地。 |
| 5. | Snow lay thick on the ground
雪后后的盖着大地。 |
| 6. | Snow lay thick on the ground
雪厚厚地盖着大地。 |
| 7. | Speculators are thick on the ground . they buy up land , sit on it for a month or two and resell for twice what they paid
投机者多得很，他们买下土地，搁置一两个月后又以双倍的价格卖出去。 |
| 8. | Speculators are thick on the ground - literally speaking . they buy up land , sit on it for a year of two and resell for several times what they paid
不夸张地说，投机商多得很，他们买下土地，然后放它个一两年，再以几倍于以前的价格卖出去。 |
| 9. | Speculators are thick on the ground - literally speaking . they buy up land , sit on it for a year of two and resell for several times what they paid
不夸张地说，投机商多得很，他们买下土地，然后放它个一两年，再以几倍于以前的价格卖出去。 |
| 10. | Within a short while , snowflakes began falling outside the bus window . the snow got thicker and thicker on the ground . when the bus drove by a huge lake in the suburbs , we saw many pointed rooftops and white conifers along the road
才一下子，窗外就开始飘雪，那雪越飘越厚，后来，车子开往市郊某个大湖，沿途有许多覆盖着白雪的尖顶小屋与雪白的针叶树，一幕接着一幕，彷若童话书上的圣诞雪景，每个人都看得心满意足。 |
