stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it;

更为奇怪的是，她把肘部在儿童玩的“罗托”纸牌上移动一下，便能说出印在纸牌上的数字和颜色。

I should wish to die while still at work,

我希望工作到死为止，

Almost any day a young porpoise may be seen trying to turn a 300-pound sea turtle over by sticking his snout under the edge of his shell and pushing up for dear life.

几乎每天都可以看到一只小海豚把鼻子顶入一只300磅重的海龟的硬壳下面，拼命地把它翻过来。

The real dividing line between continents and oceans occurs at the foot of a steeper slope.

大陆和海洋的真正分界线是在陡坡脚大陆架慢坡

unless the parents themselves have been unsatisfactory,

除非父母自身不能令人满意，

awakening it to flow, to movement, to rhythm, to life.

阳光使空气开始流动，产生节奏，获得生命。