It goes without saying that there is something outlandish, to say the least, about this.

他并没有说什么古怪的东西，对这些他尽量少提。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But then an old Yalie who took this course when he was very young, and later became an ancient Greek historian, took the wonderfully outlandish device of answering this question.

有一位老耶鲁人在年轻时选了这门课,后来成了一名历史学家,专攻古希腊史,他极其出色地回答了这个问题

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Socrates presents this proposal, again, as outlandish.

苏格拉底引入这个提议，依然古怪。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选