1. spend time doing sth 花費時間做某事

例句：who spend time pulling strings of thorns through people's tongues probably didn't have in mind.
而馬雅人忙著用荊棘穿過人們的舌頭，大概從沒想過以上解讀方式。

2. a fringe belief 一個極端偏激的信念

例句：What should have stayed a fringe belief turned into mass hysteria with the 2012 disaster movie that swept the Academy Awards and the numerous Emmy-nominated apocalypse documentaries on The History Channel.
這原本應該只是一個極端偏激的信念，隨著災難電影《2012》橫掃奧斯卡，加上《歷史頻道》多部獲艾美獎提名的天啟紀錄片渲染，轉變成為大眾恐慌。

3. be inundated with 被···淹沒

例句：Anyway, after this, NASA became so inundated with questions that they had to take time away from their busy robot building, frontier pushing, knowledge expanding, civilization inspiring schedule, to write a webpage.

NASA被大量涌入的問題淹沒，還得從他們忙碌的打造機器人、開疆擴土、擴充新知及刺激文明發展的行程表中，抽空架網頁。

4. the parade of ···的游行

例句：But the parade of crazy marched on anyway making wilder and wilder predictions for Earth.
但不論如何，這狂熱的風潮持續延燒，對地球的預測也越來越不著邊際。