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白霜被人造水果生产者所忽略一样，被一种没人相信哲学认为是思想交流真正实质那层难以衡量白霜，当也被那大机所忽略掉了。

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所有不可预测因素。

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难以捉摸问题，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，小胡像一朵小白云一样搁在他不起眼下面。他已经到了这样一个阶段，他作为一个社会生物价值是一个黑色、无法估量负面因素。

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.

所以在书中这一部分关于吸收内容里，你提到了公案， 这些是禅宗谜题，比如一些难以解答问题：一只手拍掌声音是什么，等等。

One imponderable was the fate of the hostages in Iran.

一个不可估量因素是伊朗人质命运。

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

这不就是那个难以预料难题吗？