He writes,"Ocean.There isn't another word in the English Language as strange as lovely and broad."

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Take the example of "plastic" again: "Oh, gee, that's a strange word," we say, so we go to the OED , we see it meant something different then, our problem is solved, and we continue.

再拿“塑料“来举例：,我们说，“哦，那是个生词“,所以我们去查牛津大学英语词典，我们发现它有些不同的意思，问题解决了，我们继续下去。

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Leda feels the beating of the swan's heart, and that heart is "strange" to her, that simple, powerful word.

丽达感受到天鹅的心跳，而那心跳对她来说很陌生，陌生，是个简单给力的词。

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Incubate is the strange Latin word, and it's a verb -- of course, as we know-- it's a verb typically used with relation not to spirits but to gestating birds, and it literally means "to brood."

incubabat“是个罕见的拉丁词，是个动词--当然，我们知道--这个动词通常用于正在孕育后代的鸟,而不用于神灵，它的字面意思是“孵“

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