His writing is elegant and urbane, full of paradoxes, aphorisms and conceits: The sky has powdered the taiga, shaking velvety down over the vert-de-bronze of the cedars.

他的作品语言优美、雅致，充满悖论、各种金句、天马行空的幻想：天空粉饰那针叶林，轻柔地散落在青绿杉树之上。

And that's the key to the paradox.

而这就是近日/远日点矛盾的关键。

I think there's two ways to resolve this paradox.

我想，有两种方式能解决这种矛盾。

That paradox may be close to resolution.

这种矛盾可能即将解决。

A paradox runs through this astute and entertaining book.

在这本机敏而有趣的书中贯穿着一个悖论。

I call it the paradox of graduation and the concept of the perpetual student.

我称之为“业悖论”和“永远的学生”。

Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners, as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing.

老师和学生都体验过这样一种人好奇的悖论，那就是初学者好像是一种规则一样，通常都很少思考他们在做什么，因为他们对在做什么考虑得太多了。

And the result is a paradox, right?

所以这个结果是个悖论，不是吗？

Across the Tasman Sea, Australia deals with the unjustified dismissal paradox by excluding employees earning above a specified " high-income threshold" from the protection of its unfair dismissal laws.

在塔斯曼海的另一边，澳大利亚通过将收入超过特定“高收入门槛”的员工排除在不公平解雇法的保护之外，来解决不合理解雇悖论。

For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.

它一面告诫我们珍惜它所赐予的诸多恩惠，一面又注定最终将其全部收回。

Perhaps part of that wisdom is to recognise some of life's baffling paradoxes, such as the way human beings have a huge propensity for good, and yet a capacity for evil.

但也许，认识到人生中一些人困惑的矛盾，也是这种智慧的一部分，比如人类在拥有巨大向善意愿的同时，也拥有作恶的能力。

We become stuck in an uncomfortable paradox; our ambitions have been ignited by greatness, but everything we know of ourselves points to congenital ineptitude.

这情形每天都在你我生活中上演。我们陷入不在的矛盾中；伟大点燃野心的熊熊大火，但我们明知资质驽钝。

And in that paradox lies the answer to why now.

而这一悖论是“为什么是现在”的答案。

The fact that a wire mother, or an rejecting mother or receiving a electric shocks for an attaching their mother, would cause more attachment, more love, more dependence, seems like a paradox.

事实是 无论电线母亲还是一直在排斥的母亲，或者说在跟随母亲的遭到的电击，都会产生更强的依恋 更多的爱以及更强的依赖感，听上去似乎是个矛盾。

I try hard not to waste energy feeling badly for myself, because when I do, I get stuck in a paradox, where there's no room for any happiness or any other emotion.

我尽力让不去 浪费能量为感到难过，因为当我这么做时 我会陷入一个悖论，并且除了悲伤这不会给我 带来任何幸福或其他情感。

Psychologists call this " the paradox of choice, " paralysis stemming from too many options.

心理学家称之为" 选择的悖论" ，因为太多选择而导致麻木不仁。

Such as how black holes work or the information paradox.

像是黑洞如何运行或是它的讯息悖论。

He said the paradox was that politicians were becoming less interested as things got worse.

他表示，现在的矛盾是，随着情况的恶化，政客们应对气候变化的兴趣越来越小。

Time for our second uncountable question … now that's a paradox of words!

接着不可数名词第二题… … 现在是矛盾词！

And that highlights the Craftsman bungalow paradox.

这便凸显了“工匠平房悖论”。