HAVE you ever experienced that eerie feeling of a thought popping into your head as if from nowhere, with no clue as to why you had that particular idea at that particular time?

你有没有试过某个怪诞的想法突然不知道从某个地方冒出来，而且你根本不知道为什么你会在这个特定的时候冒出这种特别的想法？

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If you stand back far enough from the canal Banks, it appears as though the giant ships are gliding through dry desert sands in the middle of nowhere.

如果你站在运河岸边远处眺望，就好像巨轮在茫茫荒野干旱沙海上滑行。

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It is as if they come from nowhere.

这是因为如果他们来自无处。

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When his train reached a normal section of track, it suddenly appeared on screens across the system, as if from nowhere, and a dispatcher saw what was about to happen.

NEWYORKER: Boss Rail

The journey from nowhere to nowhere becomes an absurdist quest, as if John Ford had been overtaken along the trail by Samuel Beckett.

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Though such events seem to spring from nowhere, as if the cortex is surprising us with a breakthrough, scientists have begun studying how they occur.

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