To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

现在，如果读到这些集子，人们肯定会惊诧，当年这般渊博深奥内容竟然被认适合发表在大众日报中。

His use of arcane terminology seemed profoundly strange and entirely characteristic.

他使用这些深奥术语似乎异常奇怪，但又完全符合他特点。

But the aim of this book is not merely to show how the pumps work, but to deploy them to help readers think through some of the most profound (and migraine-inducing) conundrums.

但是，他写作本书仅仅是要展示直觉泵工作流程，更重要是通过使用直觉泵，帮助读者去思考那些最深奥（同时也是最令人头疼）难题。

Not just to enliven these abstract and distant books but to make clear, to bring out what's at stake in our everyday lives, including our political lives, for philosophy.

仅是了生动地学习这些深奥抽象著作，还了让我们通过哲学看清日常生活，包括政治生活中什么才是最要紧。

It may give them a permanent taste for what is abstruse and infinitely subtle — at the expense of anything that doesn't pass an exaggerated threshold of convolution.

这可能会让他们对深奥和无限微妙东西产生永久——以牺牲所有没有通过夸大卷积阈值东西代价。

It was a short, beautiful and baffling work.

这是一本篇幅短小、文字优美、但很深奥作品。

A professor made an appointment with Nasreddin to talk about a difficult problem.

一个教授约南斯尔丁谈论一个很深奥问题。

The arguments ranged beyond the arcana of human genetics and American patent law.

讨论范围超出了人类遗传学深奥知识和美国专利法之外。

Physicists concern themselves with problems that are profound.

物理学家关心是那些深奥问题。

And the first thing to say is that this is not really rocket science.

首先要说明是，这并是什么深奥科学。

But in Paris in the 14th in 15th century, there lived a bookseller and alchemist by the name of Nicolas Flamel who was helped by a Spanish scholar who was familiar with Kabbalah, an esoteric method of Jewish mysticism.

但是，在15世纪14世纪巴黎，住着一个叫尼古拉斯·弗拉弗勒书商和炼金术士 ，他得到了一位西班牙学者帮助，这位西班牙学者十分熟悉犹太神秘主义一种深奥方法。

Human language is this absolutely complex and profound and artistic thing.

人类语言绝对是复杂、深奥且艺术。

That's a deep one. I can't really make a joke about that.

这是个深奥问题。我能开玩笑。

This is a deeply philosophical question in itself and depends on an individual's worldview.

这本身就是一个深奥哲学问题，取决于个人世界观。

The question of the soul remains one of the great mysteries of the universe.

关于“灵魂”论题，仍然宇宙中最深奥命题之一。

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

今年安排电影中既有晦涩深奥，也有颇有希望成商业红片电影。

Classic novels often have symbols which add interest, tension or deeper meaning to the text.

经典小说经常使用象征来增加文章味性，紧张感和更深奥含义。

Think about it, it's a very deep, erm, philosophy.

好好想想，这是非常深奥哲学。

But it wouldn't be some deep insight into the nature of death.

但这也并未揭示什么死亡深奥问题。

Look, kid, that's a deep question, " Will I die some day? "

听着，孩子，这是个深奥问题，" 我有天会死吗" ？