
1. She felt that the anticipation and preparation for a journey was only exceeded by the actual beginning.
The expectation of and preparation for a trip was/were exciting and the beginning was more thrilling.
2. Mrs. Taylor was glad she had been able to get well up in the queue at the gates.
Mrs. Taylor was glad she had been able to stand well up in/quite near the head of the line of people waiting at the gate.
3. But the engineering miracles of Disneyland pale compared with those of Walt Disney World in Florida.
Wonderful technical inventions in Walt Disney World in Florida were much more ingenious than those in Disneyland.
The technical inventions in Disneyland are outshone by those of the Walt Disney World in Florida.
4. Snow White has been described as “animate vanilla custard” and art critic John Canaday has charged Disney with “reducing our best fairy tale to the ultimate banality”
Disney has depicted Snow white as an animated popular/common figure and art critic John Canaday has charged Disney with turning our wonderful fairy tale into something banal/ ordinary/ commonplace.
5. This I believe to be a very common experience with women writers – they are impeded by the extreme conventionality of the other sex.
I believe that an experience common to women writers is that they are hindered by the manner and customs imposed upon by men.
6. Those aims cannot be taken for granted; they must be perpetually questioned and examined.
Those goals cannot be treated as unimportant; they must be put under constant observation and scrutiny.
Those goals can’t be treated as unimportant; we must constantly ask questions about and scrutinize them.
7. People no longer ate from the same dish or drank from the same goblet, but were divided from one another by a new wall of constraint.
People did not eat from the same dish or drink from the same cup anymore; they were separated from each other by following constrained practice of eating and drinking individually. (they were constrained by the practice of eating and drinking individually.)
8. The earliest English cookbooks were not so much as guides to recipes as guides to carving meat.
The earliest English cookbooks were rather guides to cutting meat than recipes.
9. I would carve my way to a place amongst them and make money out of the muscles of other men.
I would make my way up by working hard so as to get a position among them and make money by exploiting other labourers.
10. The stairway of time is ever echoing with the wooden shoe going up, the polished boot descending.
The stairway of history is echoing to the rise of the governed and the fall of the governors.
The stairway of history is echoing; the working class is ascending while the ruling class is going down.
History is developing with the working class going up and the ruling class going down.
