作怪

• Like a theater audience that watches the herky - jerky gestures of a marionette and infers the presence of a hidden puppeteer , researchers observe that visible matter moves in unaccountable ways and conclude that unseen matter must be pulling the strings
  这就好像观众在戏院中看到木偶的一举手、一投足，便会推论出幕后有人在操纵著；当天文学家观察到有形可见的物质以不能理解的方式运动时，即认定背后有看不见的物质在作怪。
• In answering another question , master gave an excellent talk in which she reminded us to listen to our wisdom instead of the brain . " we are all god ; it s just the mind that troubles us . the brain is what causes trouble for us , makes us do this , do that , do all the things that we don t want to do , drink coffee or smoke when we want to quit , or do any other thing
  在回答另一个问题时，师父作了非常精辟的开示，她提醒我们倾听内在的智慧，而不要听头脑的想法，我们都是上帝，只是头脑在作怪，困扰我们，叫我们做这个做那个做所有我们不想做的事，例如当我们想戒菸戒咖啡时，它叫我们继续下去，或做其它任何事，都是头脑怂恿的。
• Jim only had time to grab us by the hand and squeeze it ; then the nigger come back , and we said we d come again some time if the nigger wanted us to ; and he said he would , more particular if it was dark , because the witches went for him mostly in the dark , and it was good to have folks around then
  杰姆只能匆匆地抓住了我们的手，紧紧握了握，随后那个黑奴回来了。我们说，只要那个黑奴要我们再来，我们准来。他就说，他要的，特别是最好在夜晚，因为妖魔多半在黑夜里作怪，这时如果能有人作伴，那就好得多了。
• ' she thought . ` i must be growing small again . ' she got up and went to the table to measure herself by it , and found that , as nearly as she could guess , she was now about two feet high , and was going on shrinking rapidly : she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding , and she dropped it hastily , just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether
  她想， “我一定又变小了， ”她起来步到桌子边，量一量自己，正像她猜测的那样，她现在大约只有二英寸高了，而且还在迅速地缩下去，她很快发现是拿着的那把扇子在作怪，于是她赶紧扔掉扇子，总算快，要不就缩得没有了。
• She thought . i must be growing small again . she got up and went to the table to measure herself by it , and found that , as nearly as she could guess , she was now about two feet high , and was going on shrinking rapidly : she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding , and she dropped it hastily , just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether
  她想， “我一定又变小了， ”她起来步到桌子边，量一量自己，正像她猜测的那样，她现在大约只有二英寸高了，而且还在迅速地缩下去，她很快发现是拿着的那把扇子在作怪，于是她赶紧扔掉扇子，总算快，要不就缩得没有了。
• All those wretched quarrels , in his humble opinion , stirring up bad blood - bump of combativeness or gland of some kind , erroneously supposed to be about a punctilio of honour and a flag - were very largely a question of the money question which was at the back of everything , greed and jealousy , people never knowing when to stop
  据他的愚见，所有那些会激起敌意的无聊的争吵都意味着代表斗志的乳突168或某种内分泌腺在作怪。人们错误地以为这就是为名誉啦国旗之类的细枝末节其实，闹的主要是隐在一切事物背后的金钱问题：也就是贪婪与妒忌，人们永远也不懂得及时善罢甘休。
• ' she thought . ` i must be growing small again . ' she got up and went to the table to measure herself by it , and found that , as nearly as she could guess , she was now about two feet high , and was going on shrinking rapidly : she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding , and she dropped it hastily , just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether
  她想， “我一定又变小了， ”她起来走到桌子边，量一量自己，正像她猜测的那样，她现在大约只有二英尺高了，而且还在迅速地缩小，她很快发现是拿着的那把扇子在作怪，于是她赶紧把扇子给扔了，总算够快，要不然岂不就缩得没有了。