1. Traditional custom, taken the world over, is a mass of detailed behaviour more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions, no matter how aberrant. 从世界范围来看,传统风俗是由许多细节性的习惯行为组成,它比任何一个养成的行为都更加引人注目,不管个人行为多么异常。
2. Today Mary Engelbreit sells an astonishing 14 million greeting cards a year. 如今,玛丽·恩格尔布赖特每年卖出的贺卡达1,400万张,这是个惊人的数字。
3. One day a few weeks later I found myself sitting facing Kebba Kanga Fofana, a revered griot with an astonishing memory. 几周后的一天,我发现自己坐在一位深受尊敬的长老面前,长老名叫凯巴·坎吉·福法纳,他有着惊人的记忆力。