The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited philosophy to be the actual essence of intercourse, was rightly ignored by the Machine, just as the imponderable bloom of the grape was ignored by the manufacturers of artificial fruit.

正像葡萄上那层难以衡量的白霜被人造水果生产者所一样，被一种没人相信的哲学认为是思想交流的真正实质的那层难以衡量的白霜，当也被那大机器所掉了。

But we'll still be left with all the imponderables of hands on keyboards.

但我们仍会面对手敲键盘时的所有不可预测的因素。

And that is a massive imponderable for evolution because it doesn't make any evolutionary sense.

而这对进化来说是一个巨大的难以捉摸的问题，因为从进化角度来看毫无意义。

He was a short man with a mustache resting like a small white cloud beneath his undistinguished nose. He had reached the stage where his value as a social creature was a black and imponderable negative.

他是个矮个子，小胡子像一朵小白云一样搁在他不起眼的鼻子下面。他已经到了这样一个阶段，他作为一个社会生物的价值是一个黑色的、无法估量的负面因素。

So in this part of the book on absorption, you talk about koans, which are zen riddles, these imponderable questions like, what's the sound of one hand clapping, et cetera, et cetera.

所以在书中的这一部分关于吸收的内容里，你提到了公案， 这些是禅宗的谜题，比如一些难以解答的问题：一只手拍掌的声音是什么，等等。

One imponderable was the fate of the hostages in Iran.

一个不可估量的因素是伊朗人质的命运。

It's the great imponderable, isn't it?

这不就是那个难以预料的难题吗？