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And while the description may seem bizarre, the process is far from alien to many of us.
也许这一描述看似怪诞，但对我们中的许多人来说，这个过程却一点也不陌生。
No two seem the same. They would be like extraterrestrials among us, except that from any distance we are the ones who are unusual, alien to their more common ways of life.
从来没有两只完全一样的昆虫，它们就像是混在人群中的天外来客，和它们比起来，外星人除了离我们距离远点外，其他特征甚至比它们更接近人类。
At the time, I didn't think our marketplace was ready for a functional language because the paradigm is so alien to most programmers.
当时，我并不认为市场已经为函数性编程做好了准备，因为这一范式对于大多数程序员来说都太陌生了。

"There seems to be a growing recognition that the Taliban and other miscreants, to use the Pakistanis' own word for this,are a threat to the entire country and are alien to the spirit of Mohammed Ali Jinnah and the founders of Pakistan."
It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.
这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。
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Religion became defined primarily as a set of beliefs, a catechism of beliefs or truth that required your assent, what I think of as the catechism kind of notion of religion.That's entirely alien to the world of the Bible.
宗教最初被定义为一套信念，或要求你接受的,一套教理问答和真理，在我看来这是用,问答式呈现的宗教主张,这种形式在圣经里是,完全不存在。
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