开始有很多人都嘲笑Ty的玩具瘪瘪的没有内容，戏称他们是“马路杀手”，但在亚特兰大的首次玩具展销会上售出3万个玩具后，这些人很快就闭嘴了。

While many initially scoffed at Ty’s under-stuffed animals and referred to them as ‘roadkill, ’ the haters were quickly hushed when 30, 000 were sold at the first toy show in Atlanta.

youdao

相反，他们只是去过加利福尼亚州的Mono湖，考察了被掺入砷的水，并由此分解出一个被戏称为GFAJ-1的细菌类型。

instead, they had gone to the arsenic-laced waters of Mono Lake in California and isolated a strain of bacteria they dubbed GFAJ-1.

youdao

在阿拉伯世界一个通常安静的角落，被戏称“无聊的哈希姆王国”正发生着一件对他们来说有些陌生的事情。

SOMETHING strange is happening in a usually quiet corner of the Arab world, often mocked as "the Hashemite kingdom of boredom".

youdao