The only regular visitors to the monastery in winter are parties of skiers who go there at Christmas and Easter.

冬天常来修道院参观的只有一批批滑雪者。他们在圣诞节或复活节到那儿去。

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，

The idea never appealed to me very much,

一开始，他的这一想法没有引起我多大兴趣。

No matter where you live, you would find it difficult not to laugh at, say, Charlie Chaplin's early films.

比如说，不管你生活在哪里，你看查理。卓别林的早期电影很难不发笑。

It has always been a mystery to me who city dwellers, who appreciate all these things, obstinately pretend that they would prefer to live in the country.

城里人对这一切心里很明白，却偏要执拗地装出他们喜欢住在乡村的样子，这对我来说一直是个谜。

By working at tremendous speed, the men managed to get the dish on to dry land before the wave returned.

工人们动作迅速，终于赶在那股大浪返回之前把盘子拽到了岸上。