I had not very much to say. It was a record of hard work and of little adventure; of experiments in this direction and in that; of the gradual acquisition of the knowledge of books and of men.

我没有太多的事好说。我的生活只不过每日辛勤工作，没有什么奇艳遇。我在不同方向进行了摸索试验；我逐渐积累了不少书本知识和人情世故。

And this kind of a thing, that's what it does.

这种奇带来的效果就这样。

What's Tom Gables favorite oddball tidbit about the secret lives of wolves?

Tom Gables 最喜欢的关于狼的秘密生活的奇什么？

So many iconic business stories begin on the back of a cocktail napkin.

很多商业奇从鸡尾酒餐巾的传递开始的。

Stewart has loads of stories like that and fascinating anecdotes about US presidents.

有关美国总统这样的奇异事，斯图尔特能讲三天三夜。

They were interested in exotic places like Highland Scotland, and there was a lot of inexpensive media, magazines and newspapers, that collected stories about this wonderful, spooky, otherworldly holiday and Americans loved it.

他们对苏格兰高地这样的异域很感兴趣，有很多廉价的媒体，杂志和报收集了很多在这些节日里发生的那些奇的，诡异的，又超凡脱俗的故事，美国人特别喜欢看这些奇异事。

Ms Ogilvie's book is full of quirky titbits.

奥格尔维的这本书充满了奇轶事。

Ah! well do I remember those whose names these records bear; Who round the hearthstone used to close, After the evening prayer, And speak of what these pages said In tones my heart would thrill!

啊！我清晰记得，《圣经》，那多鲜活过去，壁炉边，家庭聚集的气息，晚间祷告后，每天热烈话题，报，事奇轶事，历历如目，触手可及的震撼。

The data back up the anecdotes. Total vacancies are running at their highest level for at least two decades, indicating that firms have plenty of unfilled positions.

有数据支撑这些奇轶事。职位空缺总数达到了至少20年来的最高水平，这表明公司有大量空缺职位。

Everyone has an anecdote to share about how stress affects their body, particularly in their skin and hair - the only tissues we can see from the outside, Hsu said.

关于压力如何影响自己的身体，尤其如何影响皮肤和头发，每个人会有点儿奇异事要说--皮肤和头发外在能看到的变化，这位教授这样说道。

His story is supported by lively anecdotes of the people and firms he meets on his travels, many of them in the course of making a documentary film.

他的故事由其在旅途中遇到的人和企业间生动的奇轶事所构成，许多故事还正制成了纪录片。

He was reading a brown-backed volume, but as the crowd approached he laid it aside, and listened attentively to an account of the episode.

他正在读一本棕色封面的书。当这群人来到他的面前，他就把书放在一边，注意地听取了这件奇的汇报。

A few other techniques you might find in a speechwriter's toolbox might be the use of imagery, anecdotes and alliteration.

在演讲稿撰稿人的这些“工具箱”中你可能还会看到这些“工具”：比喻、奇异事、押韵等。

Goodwin remains on Harvard's board of overseers, despite the fact that she committed sins that might get an undergraduate expelled.

现在安布罗斯想必可以略松一口气了，因为舆论已将焦点对准另一位剪贴高手多丽丝卡恩斯古德温，她美国电视节目的常客，对于诸如林顿约翰逊或者亚伯拉罕林肯等人的奇轶事总能侃侃而谈（前者与他熟识，后者他下一部巨著的主角）， (1) 但他对剽窃指控的处理可能比指控本身更糟糕。个世界八十年代末，她用钱打发了一名被剽窃作者，让其保持沉默。如今在解释自己抄袭举动，她申辩道当初不得不依赖手抄笔记，很多历史学家亦如此。只并未引起轩然大波而已。令人不解的，本科生犯了同样的错误会被逐出校园，而古德温却仍哈弗大学的校董事会成员之一。

He did not provide a source for this nugget, apparently believing it to be true simply on logical grounds.

他没有为这个小奇提供出处，显然只基于逻辑的理由认为它真的。

Now the snag in this sort of anecdote is of course that one cannot distinguish cause and effect.

这类奇的疑难之处无法区别因果关系。

But to him, it was little more than a curiosity worthy of note.

但对他来说，这只不过一个值得注意的奇罢了。

That's just weird for somebody to walk up and tell you some weird thing from nowhere.

有个人突然走前，跟你讲了一个不知道哪里听来的奇。

Sounds quite fun, give it a go. Right. The next in our sort of calendar of strange events: " Guy Fawkes night" .

听起来不错啊，不妨尝试一下。好吧。接下来的奇异事：“盖伊福克斯之夜”。

Every jack sprat that hath a pen in strange news.

每个拿着笔的家伙在追逐奇异事。