古怪地

Frodo Baggins That sentence, spoken reluctantly by a curious, home-loving small creature with furry feet and a preposterous name, is slightly enigmatic. But some 10 million passionate readers round the world will instantly recognize it as the real beginning of one of the great fairy tale quests in modern literature……——Eucatastrophe, From TIME Magazine, September

这句话，由一个名字古怪、长着毛毛脚、恋家而好奇心重的小人儿不情不愿地说出来，颇有些令人费解，但立刻就得到全球成千上万热情读者的认可，视为现代文学史上一个伟大的奇幻冒险故事的开端……——摘自1973年托尔金去世美国《时代杂志》悼念文章《救赎的时刻

Librations are primarily caused by the Moon's varying orbital speed due to the eccentricity of its orbit: this allows us to see up to about6° more along its perimeter.

振动主要地由月亮所引起正在由于它的轨道的古怪改变轨道的速度：这让我们沿着它的周长见到达大约6°更多。

Often during the day, when Yasha sat in the Cafe Lurs, sipping black coffee and leafing through a magazine, he was seized by an odd premonition

白天，雅夏坐在波斯人咖啡馆里喝黑咖啡，翻杂志的时候，他时常不由自主地想到一个古怪的预兆。

I then encountered this curious flock of sheep with the single black example taking its position prominently mid-front and staring at me.

我然后遇到这古怪的羊群和单身贵族黑色的实例获得它的位置显著地在中间和凝视我。

He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel and his eyes fell on a huddle of these weirdos standing quite close by.

他的手指不耐烦地敲击着方向盘，并目又看了看近处一群衣着古怪的人。

Extract 3 'Sometimes we came upon a station close by the bank, clinging to the skirts of the unknown, and the white men rushing out of a tumbledown hovel, with great gestures of joy and surprise and welcome, seemed very strange-- had the appearance of being held there captive by a spell. The word 'ivory' wouldring in the air for a while - and on we went again into the silence, along empty reaches, round the still bends, between the high walls of our winding way, reverberating in hollow claps the ponderous beat of the stern wheel. Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at

有时我们会经过紧挨着河岸，紧挨着那片未知地域边缘的一个贸易站，白人们从一间摇摇欲坠的茅屋里冲出来，打着很多表示高兴、惊奇和欢迎的手势，看起来十分古怪—看上去像是被符咒镇在那儿当了俘虏，'象牙'这个词照例会在空气中回响一阵子—然后又一次驶入寂静，沿着一片没有人烟的水道，绕过一个个平静的转角，穿过蜿蜒航程中的峭壁，船尾外轮沉重的击水声空洞地回响着。

I'm the queerest young fellow that ever you heard.

298我这小伙子，无比地古怪

A few years ago I stumbled on my first manafestation, probabably one of the oddest to date.

几年前我步履蹒跚地走上了我的第一次游行，可能也是迄今为止最古怪的一次。

A wild-looking old woman dressed all in green had waved merrily at him once on a bus.

还有一次，一个全身穿绿的相貌古怪的老太婆，高兴地在公共汽车上向他招手。

These strange behaviours, reported by Lhermitte (1983) and others, are partly caused by an inability to inhibit automatic behaviours, it's like the old comedy standby of a distracted person continuing to spoon sugar into their coffee, except much more extreme.

在 Lhermitte (1983)中描述了的等等这些古怪的行为部分是因为无法抑制做出自动行为而引起；就好像一个分心的人不断将糖放入自己的咖啡中这样的古老喜剧，只不过此时要极端地多。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。