我将就冬天户外开花植物的话题进行讨论，作为对询问者的回答。
In response to many requests, I pursue the subject of plants that will flower out of doors during the winter months.
应当只有在询问者知道所询问的问题时，这个应答才有意义。
The answer is only meaningful because the questioner knows the question that was asked.
但当询问者得知涉及的内容时，他们中的多数都回避了。
But when the inquirers learned what was involved, most of them shied away.
经过这些变化之后，当他无法摆脱询问者时，神就替他作出详尽的回答。
When, after all these and many other changes, he failed to get rid of his questioner, the god offered detailed answers.
出于礼貌，你应该给询问者一个精简的回答告诉他们你在做什么，而不是茫茫然喃喃道，“我包罗万象（注释1）。”
Politeness dictates that you should provide enquirers with a brief but accurate precis of what you do, not a thousand-yard stare and a murmured, "I contain multitudes".
在他接受的大多数病例中，这个具有特殊心灵能力的人从不与询问者见面。
In most of the cases that were presented to him, the celebrated psychic never met the persons making the requests.
《国民询问者》甚至宣称，我们天文学家已真正发现了其它星球上的文明。
The "National Enquirer" blazoned forth that we astronomers had really discovered another civilization.
“你早晚都祷告吗？”我的询问者继续说。
Do you say your prayers night and morning? Continued my interrogator.
“你早晚都祷告吗？”我的询问者继续说。
Do you say your prayers night and morning? Continued my interrogator.
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