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”.

在中国北部沧州市，一些官员对宣誓戒烟，“为打击环境污染做出自己贡献”显示出热情。

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

这本书非不，而且非巧妙。

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

他注意到脚下地面含有一种不同成分。

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

我不认为这有什么特别。我习惯随机应变。

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.

他论点是，不同历史导致这个群体遭受不精神压力，正是这种压力导致这种矛盾状。

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

当他们异能干时候，他们不知道自己能力有多不。

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

他采取不同举措，那就是亲自打电话给美联社，并发表意思明确声明。

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

这是一个不足球场设计选择。

So what's up with that unusual design?

那么这项非比设计究竟怎么样？

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

本·弗西特机长买一辆不同出租汽车，并开始一项新业务。

But imprisonment had caused an unusual change in his body.

但是长期监禁生活对他身体造成不同影响。

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.

哑炮和麻瓜出身巫师正好相反，不过哑炮是很少见。

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。

Unusual and unexpected issues have come up.

不和意想不到问题都被提出来。

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采取一项不同举措，自己宣布其资产贬值，从去年3月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“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苹果公司在中国一起不同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，小婴儿们也会进行所谓“选择性观看”，与他们认为很普通事物相比，他们对于有趣事物或是不同事物会注视更久。

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.

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