1、When he went back to the truck for the cameras, she took her beer and went upstairs, noted that he had cleaned the tub, and then ran a high, warm bath for herself, settling in with her glass on the floor beside her while she shaved and soaped.
（1）从细节见人品，女主回到浴室时，看到男主把澡盆擦洗得干干净净。女主也充满期待地准备好好洗浴一下。
（2）句首的when引导时间状语从句，主句包括下面几个谓语动词took/ went/ noted/ ran，setting in……作伴随状语，该伴随状语本身包含一个由while引导的时间状语从句。
（3）他回到卡车拿相机时，她拿着啤酒上楼，注意到他已经把澡盆洗干净了。于是放了一大盆热水泡了进去，把啤酒杯放在澡盆旁边的地上，开始擦肥皂，剃汗毛。
2、Like a demanding invalid, it needed constant attention, even though the steady substitution of equipment for human labor had made much of the work less onerous than it had been in the past.
（1）万事不能一成不变，不能墨守成规，都得需要不断的呵护，夫妻之间的爱情也是如此。
（2）like作为介词引导一个介词结构，表示对比，本句是一个复合句，主句是it……attention, 后面的even though 引导让步状语从句。
（3）还有那农场，像一个缠人的病人一样需要时时刻刻关心，尽管不断更新的代替人力的设备使劳动比以前减轻了许多。