I always want to--modern football helmets which are monstrous-- I'm so old we used to play with leather ones without a face mask.

现代美式橄榄球的面具就跟怪兽一样的,我老了,我们小时候打球都是皮质头盔而且没有面具的

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She can perform magic and she can do monstrous things that you can't imagine a Greek woman doing, at least the Greeks can't imagine, so that's not Greek territory out there.

她会法术,而且能做一些你无法想象的,普通的希腊妇女不会做的事,至少希腊人是无法想象的,因此那里不属希腊

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To the broody hen, the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never to be too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.

对母鸡来说，这个概念可能看起来荒谬,世界上有一种生物,对一窝鸡蛋,着迷，觉得弥足珍贵,对她而言，永远不觉得,孵蛋时间太长。

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