“Where is this bookstore?” he asked, cursing himself for even sounding interested.

“那书店在哪里？” 他问道，诅咒自己听起来很感兴趣。

youdao

I become fairly interested in the absurd scene after a lie is covered up with high-sounding words. Take "to call a stag a horse" (to confuse right and wrong) as an example.

当一种谎言被冠以各种堂皇理由后出现的荒诞景致是我目前最感兴趣的方向之一。

youdao

A more sincere sounding answer that still doesn't commit you might sound more like, "I am very interested in advancing my career, and if relocating is a part of that, I would certainly consider it."

一个更加真诚而又不会直接做出承诺的回答会更像是，“我非常想在我的职业生涯中有所突破，如果搬家是其中一部分的话，我肯定会考虑的。”

youdao

This unlikely sounding collaboration is taking place between researchers interested in exploring Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which is sealed off below several kilometres of ice, and planetary scientists, who see such exploration as a possible dress rehearsal for a future robotic mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, whose icy surface is thought to conceal vast oceans that might harbour extraterrestrial life.

ECONOMIST: Planetary pretenders