People say he uses those plants to make strange kinds of medicine.

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Strange to say, too, that night we crossed the ferry with Bull Lee a girl committed suicide off the deck either just before or just after us. We saw it in the paper the next day.

还有件很奇怪的事儿，我们和布尔·李渡过渡口的那天晚上,一个姑娘从船上跳水自杀了，大概不是在我们渡河之前,就是以后，第二天我们从报纸上看到了这个消息。

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You'd be less likely to say "You look tired." or "You look bored." or "You look strange."

但你可能并不会说，“你看起来累极了。”，或者“你看起来很无聊。”，或“你看起来很奇怪。”

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And strange to say, I think he's smarter than I am."

不得不承认,但我觉得他比我聪明"

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Take the example of "plastic" again: "Oh, gee, that's a strange word," we say, so we go to the OED , we see it meant something different then, our problem is solved, and we continue.

再拿“塑料“来举例：,我们说，“哦，那是个生词“,所以我们去查牛津大学英语词典，我们发现它有些不同的意思，问题解决了，我们继续下去。

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Now. It's a quick sidebar, I've got to say, I'm sure talking about efficiency to folks like you probably seems really strange.

这是个快速寻找的工具，我必须说跟你们讨论效率,看起来有点奇怪。

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