A form of ancient Greek and Roman theatrical entertainment in which familiar characters and situations were farcically portrayed on stage, often with coarse dialogue and ludicrous actions.

And Horowitz's research sometimes comes up puzzlingly short: Rail sheds were at no time illuminated by "neon lights hung on chains." More glaringly, New Yorkers could have told him that there aren't two stations between Jay Street and York Street on the F line.

霍洛维茨的研究有时莫名其妙地令人失望，比如火车站绝不会被“成串成串的霓虹灯”照亮。更加明显的是，纽约人都可以告诉他，F线上的杰伊街与约克街之间并没有两个车站。

Puzzlingly for the pragmatic spacemen, their trip to the moon seemed to have elevated them to the status of oracles, and people pressed them for their thoughts on everything from religion to the future of the human species and the chances for world peace.

对于务实的宇航员感到迷惑的是，他们的登月旅程似乎把他们提升到了圣人的地位，并且人们迫切想知道他们的任何想法，从宗教到人类的未来和世界和平的机会。

Puzzlingly, very little of this kind of detail has made it into "Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin" ( Scribner), a new biography by the British author Andrew Wilson.

令人不解的是，英国作家安德鲁·威尔逊（Andrew Wilson）几乎没有把任何这样的细节写入新传记《亚历山大·麦昆：栖血肤下》（Alexander McQueen:Blood Beneath the Skin，查尔斯·斯克里布纳父子出版公司[Scribner]出版）中。

For centuries, scientists and historians have argued over why Stonehenge was built and, even more puzzlingly, how.

几个世纪以来，科学家和历史学家对于英国巨石阵建造缘由以及更令人费解的建造过程争论不休。

Puzzlingly, it has allowed Mr Blatter to stay in his job for up to nine more months.

令人困惑的是，它还允许布拉特继续留任最长达9个月的时间。

Difficult to understand or solve; puzzlingly intricate.

棘手的很难理解或解决的；令人困惑地错综复杂的。

It is the simplicity, and as it were abstractedness to our feelings in youth, that ( so to speak) identifies us with nature, and ( our experience being slight and our passions strong) deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it.

由于年轻人天真单纯，可以说是茫然无知，因而将自己跟大自然划上等号；并且，由于经验少而感情盛，误以为自己也能和大自然一样永世长存。

Higher educational background, higher satisfactory degree with position, and urban growing environment had positive influential effects on abstractedness.

高学历、高岗位满意度、城市成长环境3项变量对幻想性人格特质有着优势影响作用。

Dominance and abstractedness were the main risk personality factors of esophageal carcinoma;

恃强和幻想是食管癌的主要人格危险因素；

On the Ancient Chinese Philosophy of Frugality and Thriftiness and Its Practical Value

中国古代的勤俭节用思想及其现实价值

That's a positive feeling. Now I added only to my thriftiness but also independence and endurance.

通过这事，我不仅长了点经济头脑，也变得更加独立，更具忍耐力了。

Thriftiness is a traditional Chinese virtue.

他表示：节俭是中国的传统美德。

Combinatorial Innovation: Paradigm of Thinking for Self-denying and Self-surpassing

组合创新：否定与超越自我的思维范式

We need a self-denying process, for without denial, the load of cultural development would be heavy.

在这一反思中，我们需要一个否定自我的过程，因为没有否定，文化发展的负荷将是沉重的。

They believed that good parents should be self-sacrificing and self-denying

他们认为好的父母应该牺牲自我，一心为孩子着想。

The excretion of a small, harmless, snake-shaped creature known as the coral grubb, coralite is spongelike in appearance.

珊瑚岩是一种细小无害，蛇状，叫作珊瑚虫的生物的排泄物，外形像海绵。

Chris Davidson of Durham University, who has written a history of the emirate, describes it as a" spongelike economy", designed to absorb foreign money.

达拉谟大学的克里斯•戴维森为这个酋长国撰写了一部史书，把其比作“海绵经济”，即为吸取外资而服务。

Ms. McIntyre said she thinks the next big things could be sleeping masks and cushion compacts, in which BB cream in a compact form comes with a spongelike applicator for a dewy finish.

麦金太尔认为接下来流行的可能是睡眠面膜和气垫BB霜。BB霜紧密地填在盒内，附有海绵状的敷抹器，能让皮肤最后呈现出水灵灵的感觉。

Sodium montmorillonite can be freeze-dried into a spongelike material known as an aerogel.

蒙脱土可以被冷冻干燥成一种叫做气凝胶的海绵状材料。

By testing and Analyzing the perviousness of two kinds of flexible compound material, the application of it to military packaging is researched.

通过试验，对两种软质复合材料的透湿性进行对比分析，并就其在军品包装方面的应用进行研究。