In the northern city of Cangzhou some officials showed unusual zeal by vowing to give up smoking in order to “do their personal best to combat air pollution”.

在中国北部的沧州市，一些官员对宣誓戒烟，“为打击环境污染做出自己的贡献”显示出了极大的热情。

It's such an unusual book, and it's clever.

这本书非常不寻常，而且非常巧妙。

He noticed that the ground beneath his feet had an unusual composition.

注意到脚下的地面含有一种不同寻常的成分。

I didn't think this unusual. Improvising was routine for me.

我不认为这有什么特别的。我习惯了随机应变。

His argument is that the unusual history of these people has (subjected) them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this (paradoxical) state of affairs.

的论点是，不同寻常的历史导致这个群体遭受了极不寻常的力，正是这种力导致了这种矛盾的状。

When they're exceptionally competent, they don't perceive how unusual their abilities are.

当异常能干的时，不知道自己的能力有多不寻常。

To do so, he took the unusual step of personally telephoning the AFP news agency and dictating this blunt statement.

采取了不同寻常的举措，那就是亲自打电话给美联社，并发表意思明确的声明。

It's an unusual design choice for a football stadium.

这是一个不寻常的足球场设计选择。

So what's up with that unusual design?

那么这项非比寻常的设计究竟怎么样？

Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.

本·弗西特机长买了一辆不同寻常的出租汽车，并开始了一项新的业务。

But imprisonment had caused an unusual change in his body.

但是长期的监禁生活对的身体造成了不同寻常的影响。

El Nino is an unusual warming in the equatorial eastern Pacific.

厄尔尼诺是赤道东部太平洋不寻常的变暖现象。

Keep in touch, I still want to hear about anything unusual.

保持联系，我仍然希望你一有异常情就写信告诉我。

Kind of the opposite of Muggle-born wizards, but Squibs are quite unusual.

哑炮和麻瓜出身的巫师正好相反，不过哑炮是很少见的。

How unusual is that? I'm told that this is unprecedented.

这种情有多罕见？我听说这是史无前例的。

Unusual and unexpected issues have come up.

不寻常和意想不到的问题都被提了出来。

Last month Instacart, a grocery-delivery firm, took the unusual step of announcing its own devaluation, from $39bn in March last year to $24bn, even without an accompanying " down round" of fund raising at a lower price.

上个月，食品杂货配送公司Instacart采取了一项不同寻常的举措，自己宣布其资产贬值，从去年3月的390亿美元降至240亿美元，甚至没有伴随着一轮以更低价格进行的“下行”融资。

The world's most valuable company, Apple, lost an unusual trademark case in China when a court in Beijing found in favour of Xintong Tiandi, a seller of leather goods with the name “IPHONE” emblazoned on them.

世界上最具经济价值的苹果公司在中国一起不同寻常的商标权诉讼案件中败诉。

Like cats, babies appear to engage in what's called " preferential looking" — looking longer at things that are interesting or unusual than things they perceive as normal.

和猫类一样，小婴儿也会进行所谓的“选择性观看”，与认为很普通的事物相比，对于有趣的事物或是不同寻常的事物会注视更久。

I guessed vaguely from my mother's signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house that something unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps.

我从母亲的手势里，以及房间里人忙前忙后的动静隐约地猜到，家里要有什么事发生。所以，我就走出房门坐在台阶上等着。