1·Maitland offered one reason: the subject requires researchers to "master an extremely formal system of pleading and procedure".
梅特兰给出了一个理由：这一课题要求研究人员“掌握一套极其正式的答辩程序系统”。
2·Maitland observed that legal documents are the best—indeed, often the only—available evidence about the economic and social history of a given period.
梅特兰观察到，法律文件是关于某一特定时期的经济和社会历史的最好的——事实上，往往是唯一可用的证据。
3·We spent Christmas Day with my friend from Oxford, Sara Maitland, and her husband, Donald Lee, an American who had become a priest in the Church of England.
我们与我在牛津的朋友萨拉.梅特兰以及她的丈夫唐纳德.李共度圣诞节。 唐纳德.李是一个美国人，他成了一位英国国教会神父。
4·To be able to detect them, Dr Maitland will have to use a specially developed camera that scans the body slice by slice.
为了能够检测到它们，梅特兰博士不得不使用专门研制的能够一片一片扫描身体的相机。
5·Fortunately, the team that won the Nobel prize was able to provide Dr Maitland with a version of the protein that emits red light.
幸运的是，荣获诺贝尔奖的团队能够为梅特兰博士提供发出红光的蛋白质。