All these stuffy old white guys with their treatises and obscure terminologies.

迂腐刻板的白人教授以及他们难懂的论文和晦涩的术语。

This was the purplest prose of all time, but people loved the stuff.

这是有史以来最艰深晦涩的文章，但人们就是喜欢这样的东西。

Many people would consider the yearly earnings reports of major companies as inside baseball information.

多人会把大公司的年度收益报告视为晦涩的专业信息。

But antitrust cases often hinge on obscure details or arguments.

但反垄断案件往往取决于晦涩不清的细节或论据。

For example, some urban voters are not interested in the inside baseball of constitutional reform.

例如，一些城市选民对晦涩的宪法改革程序不感兴趣。

This year's schedule includes both obscure films and movies which seem destined for commercial success.

年安排的电影中既有晦涩深奥的，也有颇有希望成为商业红片的电影。

They're not like really really difficult and obscure words.

它们不是很难懂或很晦涩的单词。

We Europeans cannot afford to waste our energies on internal disputes or arcane institutional debates.

我们欧洲人不能把精力浪费在内部争端，或晦涩难懂的制度辩论上。

And I don't mean using really challenging difficult obscure words.

我并不是说使用真正具有挑战性的晦涩难懂的词汇。

The book begins with a long, tortuous introduction.

【tortuous】这本书的开头是一篇冗长、晦涩的前言。

So they use long words, obscure jargon, and buzzwords like " holistic" to fill the space.

所以他们用长词、晦涩难懂的行话和像“整体”这样的流行语来填补空白。

Late-night hosts may occasionally poke fun at scientists, portraying them as oddballs working on obscure projects.

深夜主持人有时会嘲笑科学家，将他们描绘成从晦涩项目的怪人。

The question is how do you take a boring and confusing subject and teach it to kids.

问题是，你怎样才能接受这门乏味而晦涩的学科并把它教给你的孩子呢？

And, an even more obscure genre: I like to listen to my data.

”还有一种更晦涩难懂的音乐类型：“我喜欢听我的数据。”

If you avoid difficult books because they're abstract, you're limiting your own access to more powerful mental tools.

如果你因为晦涩难懂的书太抽象而不去读，那你就是在限制自己获得更强大的思维工具。

This means to discuss something, usually a difficult subject, without hiding your feelings, emotions or facts about that subject.

这个短语的意思是讨论某个话题，往往是很晦涩的话题的时候没有试图隐藏实或你的感受。

What you don't want to do is mimic all of the crazy obscure gestures that your date might do.

你不会想模仿你的约会对象做的那些晦涩难懂的手势。

I think that actually one reason mathematics is difficult to understand is actually because of that network of prerequisites.

实际上，我想数学真正晦涩难懂一个的原因是因为其储备知识网。

Here is another example. Many people would consider the yearly earnings reports of major companies as inside baseball information.

下面是另一个例子。多人会把大公司的年度收益报告视为晦涩的专业信息。

All this matters because the continued use of obscure language is a sign that the speaker is not thinking clearly.

所有这些都很重要，因为持续使用晦涩难懂的语言是说话者思维不清晰的标志。