神秘可怕

Only there was something in their deep-mouthed slurring of the dialect, and the thresh-thresh of their hob-nailed pit-boots as they trailed home in gangs on the asphalt from work, that was terrible and a bit mysterious.

不过在他们的含糊不清的土话里和他们在沥青路上曳着钉底鞍。一群一群的散工回家时候的嘈杂声里，却有些什么可怕而有点神秘的东西。

Only there was something in their deep-mouthed slurring of the dialect, the thresh-thresh of their hob-nailed pit-boots as they trailed home in gangs on the asphalt from work, that was terrible a bit mysterious.

不过在他们的含糊不清的土话里和他们在沥青路上曳着钉底鞍。一群一群的散工回家时候的嘈杂声里，却有些什么可怕而有点神秘的东西。

But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amy's every move and that, whoever it is, he's not alone.

但是，Nickie带来的欣喜很快就因一系列可怕事件而蒙上了阴影：一个让人感到不祥的陌生人，一件神秘的房屋非法入侵事件，一种清晰的感觉：某个人正在监视Amy的一举一动，而且他还有同伙。

It was a weird old house, full of creaks and groans.

这是所神秘而可怕的旧宅，到处嘎吱嘎吱作响。

It was a weird old house,full of creaks and groans.

这是一所神秘而可怕的阳宅，到处嗄吱嗄吱作响。

It was a weird old house,full of creaks and groans.

译文- 这是一所神秘而可怕的阳宅，处处嗄吱嗄吱作响。

The cab stopped in the midst of Robert Audley's meditation, and he had to pay the cabman, and submit to all the dreary mechanism of life, which is the same whether we are glad or sorry--whether we are to be married or hung, elevated to the woolsack or disbarred by our brother benchers on some mysterious technical tangle of wrong-doing, which is a social enigma to those outside the Middle Temple.

罗伯特·奥德利沉思到中途时马车就停下来了，他得付给车夫车钱，得屈从于人生的一切可怕的机械装置：不论你高兴或是悲哀，那可都是一样的——不论你是结婚了还是给绞死了，不论你是升到了英国上院议长兼大法官的职位上，还是被律师协会的同仁们开除出了律师界——根据的却是神秘的技术观点所谓不道德行为的纠纷；就&中殿法学协会&的局外人看来，那可是社会之谜。

Brother William, this abbey is enshrouded in a terrifying mystery.

威廉教友，这所修道院正掩盖在可怕的神秘中。

Death itself is more curious than dreadful.

死亡本身的神秘多于可怕。

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment; and this, I often think, is the only explanation possible of your nature, if indeed for the profound and terrible mysteries of a human soul there is any explanation at all, except one that makes the mystery more marvellous still[29b].

要全然的自由，同时又要全然地受制于律法，这是我们时时感受到的人生永恒的吊诡；而这一点，我常常想，只能是你性情的唯一可能的解释，如果说对人性那深邃可怕的神秘，除了越说越神之外，的确能有什么解释的话 [29b]。

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。