'Not at all,' I answered.

“好的。”我回答说。

Strange forms stand in gardens, and outside buildings and shops.

公园里、大楼和商店外竖立着的奇形怪状的雕塑，

Some of them were as big as marbles.

有的钻石像玻璃球那么大。

But no one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop.

而对不太装腔作势的古玩店，无论是谁都不用壮着胆子才敢往里进。

In this part of the cave, they could hear an insistent booming sound which they found was caused by a small waterspout shooting down into a pool from the roof of the cave.

在这儿，他们可以听见一种连续不断的轰鸣声。后来他们发现这是由山洞顶部的一个小孔里喷出的水柱跌落到水潭中发出的声音。

The noise pollution survey revealed a rather spurring and possibly amusing old fashioned source of noise.

这个有关噪音的污染调查还揭示了一种出人意外而同时可能会引人意外而同时可能会引人发笑的老式噪音源。