This is an alien from the film Alien.

这是电影《异》中的一个外星。

The crew is still on board, not dead but only hibernating.

里面的异还没死，只是在休眠。

Not as some mutant horror show.

而不是变得像什么异恐怖秀。

For example, Alien was set on a spaceship.

比如，《异》是在宇宙飞船上。

He painted heads, distorted or half-submerged.

他画异的或半浸在水中的头。

We're not family, Damon. Only in the most dysfunctional sense.

我们不是一家，Damon。在你异的状态下就不是。

Whether such allotropes exist remains to be seen.

这种同素异体是否存在还有。

The decoration here, was known as " dagging" — an overlapping of layers of shaped fabric.

这里的装饰被称为“dagging”——层层叠叠的异织物。

Oh, well, it's you, Swamp Thing, Stephen Hawking, Spider-Man... but, look, you're in the mix.

屏保的照片有你，还有沼泽异，霍金，蜘蛛侠...不过，你是其中一个哟。

Chinese in Braille is based on pinyin, not characters. But the language is replete with homophones.

中文的盲文是在拼音系统，而不是汉字的结构基础上建立起来的。可是中文里有很多同音异词。

A homophone is a word that sounds like another word but has a different meaning and spelling.

同音异异义词是指一个词听起来像另一个词，但有不同的意义和拼写。

The Body Snatchers clause requires me to help you destroy someone we know who's been replaced with an alien pod.

异入侵条款必须是我们都认识的变成了外星虫囊我才帮助你消灭。

It's some kind of symbiotic metamorphosis device.

那是一种共生异装置。

Tommyknockers is a forties-style science fiction tale in which the writer-heroine discovers an alien spacecraft buried in the ground.

《林中异》是一部40年代风格的科幻小说，其中的女主角是个作家，发现了埋在土中的一架外星飞行器。

Allotropes of an element can have very different properties from each other (graphite and diamond, for example, are both allotropes of carbon).

一种元素的同素异体可能彼此具有非常不同的性质(例如，石墨和金刚石都是碳的同素异体)。

Perhaps check out some of HR Giger's artwork, who's terrifying imagery inspired the xenomorphs from the Alien franchise.

或许可以看看 HR Giger 的一些艺术作品，他的恐怖意象启发了《异》系列中的异。

There was a famous set of movies a few years ago, the first one of which was called Alien.

几年前有一套著名的电影，第一部叫《异》。

Look at these two films: Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, and Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight.

看看这两部电影：雷德利·斯科特的《异：契约》和巴里·詹金斯的《月光男孩》。

By saying only their kidnapping could cause such a mistake, the writer drives home that they would never mix up these homophones.

创作者的意思是，只有他们被绑架才会导致这样的拼写错误，作者强调他们绝不会混淆这些同音异异义词。

Imagine that scene from the movie Alien, when the alien comes up against a woman wearing one of these things.

想象一下电影《异》中的场景，当外星遇到一个穿着这些东西的女时。