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。

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“毕业悖论”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令人好奇的悖论，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，因为他们自己正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“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。

And in that paradox lies the answer to why now.

而这一悖论正是“为什么是现在”的答案。

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.

我尽力让自己不去 浪费能量为自己感到难过，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。

This has been dubbed " The Korean Paradox."

这也被称为“韩国悖论”。

Let's start with a classic of game theory, something called the " prisoner's dilemma" .

我们从经典的博弈理论开始，即" 囚徒困境悖论" 。

And that highlights the Craftsman bungalow paradox.

这便凸显了“工匠平房悖论”。

And as a magical, mystical life — an MML — we humans are uniquely free to embody whatever useful paradoxes we find, whenever it suits us.

我作为一种神奇、神秘的生物（MML）——我们人类能够在任何适合自己的时候，自由地展现我们发现的任何有用的悖论。

" I've been laughing since I went inside, " Ildarraz said. " It's really amazing."

“我进入悖论博物馆后一直在笑，”伊尔达拉兹说。“这真的很神奇。”

That's an example of what's called choice overload, also known as the paradox of choice.

这就是所谓的选择过载的一个例子，也可以称为选择悖论。

Yeah, so, that's the krill paradox, right?

是的，所以，这就是磷虾悖论，吧？

So I came across a book called The Globalisation Paradox, which is kind of interesting.

我读了一本书，叫做《全球化悖论》，挺有趣的。

And that brings up a paradox, because creating your own body heat is incredibly expensive.

这就形成了一个悖论，因为自身产热也是极其消耗能量的。

Gidge, I'll answer that question with another. You know what a paradox is?

吉吉，我再回答另一个问题。你知道什么是悖论吗？