He was prizing up the box with all his strength.他使尽力气设法撬开箱子.Yet he chronicles his travels with a wearying feather - light jocularity, prizing one - liners over lucid analysis.但他记录旅行的笔法却是乏味的 、 轻佻的滑稽,过多的俏皮话替代了清晰的分析....
这是希奇 、 古怪 、 有趣、但是徒然的斗智.It was a strange, weird, interesting and yet futile battle of wits.这种想法的本身就是可怕的, 徒然的!The very idea was ghastly, futile!我在这?爱你,而地平线徒然的隐藏你.Here I love you and horizon hides you in vain....
You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.你似乎存在相当大的误解。It requires no little courage on his part to bear this variety of misapprehensions.在他那方面,他需要有不小的勇气来忍受这不同的误解....