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奇怪
Strange
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
奇怪的是,岁月教会了我们耐心;时间越短,我们等待的能力就越大。
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
政治上的同床异梦从来都不奇怪。只有那些没有看过求爱过程的人才会这么认为。
But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
但是我认为那些带着一种很重要的态度的乐队,就像他们是一些很重要的东西一样,我只是觉得很奇怪。
I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.
我不觉得这部剧一开始就坎坷不平有什么奇怪的。这只是整个过程的一部分。
It's strange how during the worst periods of your life the first people you push away are the ones you need the most.
奇怪的是,在你生命中最糟糕的时候,你最先推开的人恰恰是你最需要的人。
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.
作家和出版商之间的关系当然非常奇怪,而且一直在变化,就像跷跷板一样。
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
人们无法想象有什么事情是如此奇怪和难以置信,以至于没有一个或另一个哲学家说过。
I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.
我一直对农村很感兴趣。外面发生的事情对城市居民来说很奇怪。
You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
你总是会卷入一些事情,因为,你知道,你的生活让你接触到的奇怪的事情。
It'll be a battleground with nothin but dead enemies of myself, Cuz when I be clickin I be feelin a strange energy within myself!
这将是一个战场,没有什么,但死亡的敌人,我自己,因为当我点击时,我感到一种奇怪的能量在我自己!
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
但奇怪的是,有多少理性的人相信宇宙的终极真理可以简化成黑板上的图案。
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
这就是制作唱片的奇怪之处。你可以在一个小时内保持一种情绪,然后把它记录下来,这样你就会被人记住。
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Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.
音乐是一种奇怪的东西。我几乎可以说这是一个奇迹。因为它介于思想和现象之间,介于精神和物质之间。
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
命运就像一个奇怪的,不受欢迎的餐厅,充满了奇怪的小服务员,他们给你带来的东西,你从来没有要求,并不总是喜欢。
It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?
奇怪的是,我们创造了技术,然后把它应用到机器上,而我们可以把它应用到我们自己身上。汽车现在可以探测到背后是否有东西,但我们没有这种能力。为什么我们要把这样一个简单的概念应用到汽车上,而我们可以把它应用到我们自己身上呢?
I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.
我认为这很奇怪,因为他们知道我们都是演员,我们表演的东西不一定和我们个人有关。
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
我从健谈的人身上学会了沉默,从偏执的人身上学会了宽容,从无情的人身上学会了善良;然而,奇怪的是,我对那些老师不领情。
Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.
不要接受陌生人的搭车——记住,所有的男人都像地狱一样奇怪。