He offers reassurance that some of man's odder impulses, from high-stakes gambling to bungee-jumping or wearing stiletto heels, are rooted in evolutionary necessity.

他再三保证，一些人的奇怪冲动，从豪赌到蹦极跳或是穿细高跟鞋，都植根于进化的必要性之中。

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We derive incredible joy from knowing odd friends, the odder the better.

我们因结识不同寻常的朋友而获得非同一般的快乐，朋友们越独特越好。

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Then I discovered something even odder: many who have a great deal of wealth don't live in posh neighborhoods.

接下来我又发现更奇怪的现象：许多真正富有的人并不住在这些豪宅里。

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The fact that he was a man interested in handicraft struck others as odder still.

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But it is, perhaps, no odder than the position of the Gurkhas in their own country.

ECONOMIST: Gurkhas in Nepal

The timing of the controls makes Dr Mahathir's cries of victory sound even odder.

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