But there’s a joke buried in our wonderment: we all anthropomorphize our pets, finding spirit, even conscience, in beautiful collies, in cool, blue-eyed Siamese cats, in potbellied pigs.

在我们惊叹于它的灵活的背后却有些讽刺：我们都将宠物拟人化——我们在漂亮的牧羊犬，蓝眼睛的暹罗猫，胖肚皮的小猪身上寻找某种精神，甚至是良心，而不是在人群中感受到这些。

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But, if this world is not merely a bad joke, life a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance of the stars.

如果这个世界不只是一个拙劣的恶作剧，如果人生不只是群星寒光中平凡的一闪。

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Chiang himself, with his glamorous wife, Soong Mayling, his cool, austere manner and his comic-book title, "the Generalissimo", seemed somewhere on the spectrum between joke and monster.

在某些方面，蒋本人似乎介于笑话与怪物之间：他有一位迷人的妻子——宋美龄，他有冷峻、严肃的习性，还有一本关于他的喜剧著作，标题是——《大统帅》。

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Whatever the first rule of cool, the first rule of funny is that if you try to dissect why a joke is funny in a solicitor's office, not only does funny move on, it doesn't leave a forwarding address and gets a restraining order taken out preventing you from ever contacting it again.

BBC: At last. A judge rules on what is - and will remain - cool