At American College in Cairo, political scientist Saiid Sadek found Mr.Obama's selection odd and undeserved.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

It is an odd and unnatural view and I don't actually expect people to believe it at first.

这是个古怪又反常的观点,我并不奢望大家在一开始,就能接受这个观点

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He had these odd kind of facial ticks that he couldn't really help at all.

他的脸部会不自觉地抽搐,完全无法控制

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So it's a bit odd to suggest, as it nonetheless does get suggested, that no, no, at some level, people don't really believe they're going to die.

所以说人们某种程度上，不相信自己的死亡这种说法，是有些怪异的。

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She and the Chevy seemed parked at the center of an odd religious instant, as if on some other frequency, or out of the eye of some whirlwind rotating too slow for her heated skin even to feel the centrifugal coolness of words were being spoken.

她和她的雪佛兰车，似乎停在了,一个宗教瞬间的中心，就像在其他的频率上，又像是离开了旋风的风眼,风转的如此之慢，以至于她灼热的皮肤,感觉不到言语带来的，离心般的寒冷。

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