I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

  • -- Jonathan Stroud 乔纳森·斯庄德

我读了一些冰岛的传奇故事。它们的迷人之处在于它们完全是普通的。农夫会跑到山里去和巨怪搏斗,然后回去做一些普通的事情。这是幻想和现实的奇怪结合。

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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

英雄是一个普通的人,他发现了力量,坚持和忍受,尽管压倒性的障碍。

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

在普通的教堂里,它被体面所抑制,被一种想要表现得比我们实际更好的愿望所抑制。

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

喜剧的奇怪之处在于,你越个人化,观众就越多。

It's an odd world.

这是一个奇怪的世界。