To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

现在，如果读到这些集子，人们肯定会惊诧，当年这般渊博深奥的内容竟然被认适合发表在大众报中。

His use of arcane terminology seemed profoundly strange and entirely characteristic.

他使用这些深奥的术语似乎异奇怪，但又完全符合他的特点。

But the aim of this book is not merely to show how the pumps work, but to deploy them to help readers think through some of the most profound (and migraine-inducing) conundrums.

但是，他写作本书的目的不仅仅是要展示直觉泵的工作流程，更重要的是通过使用直觉泵，帮助读者去思考那些最深奥的（是最令人头疼）难题。

Not just to enliven these abstract and distant books but to make clear, to bring out what's at stake in our everyday lives, including our political lives, for philosophy.

不仅是了生动地学习这些深奥抽象的著作，还了让我们通过哲学看生活，包括政治生活中什么才是最要紧的。

It may give them a permanent taste for what is abstruse and infinitely subtle — at the expense of anything that doesn't pass an exaggerated threshold of convolution.

这可能会让他们对深奥和无限微妙的东西产生永久的兴趣——以牺牲所有没有通过夸大的卷积阈值的东西代价。

It was a short, beautiful and baffling work.

这是一本篇幅短小、文字优美、但很深奥的作品。

A professor made an appointment with Nasreddin to talk about a difficult problem.

一个教授约南斯尔丁谈论一个很深奥的问题。

The arguments ranged beyond the arcana of human genetics and American patent law.

讨论范围超出了人类遗传学的深奥知识和美国专利法之外。

Physicists concern themselves with problems that are profound.

物理学家关心的是那些深奥的问题。

And the first thing to say is that this is not really rocket science.

首先要说明的是，这并不是什么深奥的科学。

But in Paris in the 14th in 15th century, there lived a bookseller and alchemist by the name of Nicolas Flamel who was helped by a Spanish scholar who was familiar with Kabbalah, an esoteric method of Jewish mysticism.

但是，在15世纪14世纪的巴黎，住着一个叫尼古拉斯·弗拉弗勒的书商和炼金术士 ，他得到了一位西班牙学者的帮助，这位西班牙学者十分熟悉犹太神秘主义的一种深奥的方法。

Human language is this absolutely complex and profound and artistic thing.

人类的语言绝对是复杂、深奥且艺术的。

That's a deep one. I can't really make a joke about that.

这是个深奥的问题。我不能开玩笑。

This is a deeply philosophical question in itself and depends on an individual's worldview.

这本身就是一个深奥的哲学问题，取决于个人的世界观。

The question of the soul remains one of the great mysteries of the universe.

关于“灵魂”的论题，仍然宇宙中最深奥的命题之一。

This year's schedule includes both obscure films and movies which seem destined for commercial success.

今年安排的电影中既有晦涩深奥的，有颇有希望成商业红片的电影。

Classic novels often have symbols which add interest, tension or deeper meaning to the text.

经典小说经使用象征来增加文章的趣味性，紧张感和更深奥的含义。

Think about it, it's a very deep, erm, philosophy.

好好想想，这是非深奥的哲学。

But it wouldn't be some deep insight into the nature of death.

但这并未揭示什么死亡的深奥问题。

Look, kid, that's a deep question, " Will I die some day? "

听着，孩子，这是个深奥的问题，" 我有天会死吗" ？