1.His mind was made up that he was not going to spend all of his days, like Tames and Andrew, in bargaining, or all his nights, by candlelight, over long columns of figures.

【句子翻譯】他已下定決心，不要像詹姆斯和安德魯那樣把所有的白天都花費在討價還價上，或者把所有的夜晚都用來對著燈光檢查賬目。

【難句解析】one's mind was made up，make up one's mind“某人下決心”；

She made up her mind that being a excellent translator one day.
她下決心要成為一名優秀的翻譯人員；

2.And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left—taxation that ate up crops and barns and the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation—he intended to have them. But having that ambition and bringing it to realization were two different matters, he discovered as time went by. Coastal Georgia was too firmly held by an entrenched aristocracy for him ever to hope to win the place he intended to have.

【句子翻譯】而在這個新國家里，既然已不像在他所離開的那個國家要冒雙重危險，即全部的收獲都租稅吞掉和隨時有可能被突然沒收，他就很想得到這些東西了。但是，一個時期以來，他已漸漸發現，懷抱這個雄心和實現這個雄心畢竟是兩回事。濱海的佐治亞州是那樣牢牢地掌握在一頑強的貴族階級手中，在這里，他就休想有一天會贏得他所刻意追求的地位。

【難句解析】safe from...“免于...；不遭受...”；eat up“吃光、吃完”；intend to“想要、打算”；go by“(時間)過去，經過，走過，依照”；

In a church, everybody is safe from the law.
在教學里每一個人都不受法律管。

She got back safe from her adventure.
她有驚無險已安全返回。

He was so hungry that he ate up his meal at a stretch.
他太饑餓了，一口氣就把飯吃光了。

Eat up your vegetables.
把你的青菜吃光。

I hear they intend to marry/intend marrying.
聽說他們要結婚了。

I don't intend to listen to this rubbish any longer!
我再也不想聽這種無稽之談了！

He let a week go by before answering the letter.
他一周以后才回信。