As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape.

由于全国动物园没有一家报告丢了美洲狮，因此那只美洲狮一定是某位私人收藏豢养的，不知怎么设法逃出来了。

These lights flickered continuously like traffic lights which have gone mad.

灯泡一刻不停地闪烁着，就像失去了控制的红绿灯。

To our dismay, we saw that there were snails everywhere:

让人沮丧的是，我们发现到处都是蜗牛：

There is always hope that in its labyrinth of musty, dark, disordered rooms a real rarity will be found amongst the piles of assorted junk that little the floors.

人们还常常有希望在发霉、阴暗、杂乱无章、迷宫般的店堂里，从杂乱地摆放在地面上的、一堆堆各式各样的破烂货里找到一件稀世珍品。

He simply had no sense of danger at all.

而是他压根儿没有一点儿危险感。

Inevitably the repair job was not quite so simple.

事实上，修理工作远不是那么简单。