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Every night in his setting room father took off his boots and muttering some cryptic statements after raising glass of whiskey upto his lips precisely every 45 seconds.
每個晚上，在休息室 父親脫下靴子 咕噥些只有自己懂的話 舉起手里的威士忌 精確地每45秒喝一口
A conversion from a cricket.
胡說八道的死蛐蛐
Crickets and insects, were my mother's specialty.
蛐蛐是一種昆蟲 它們是我母親的研究對象
Dr Clair spent most of her adult life studying tiny creatures with the magnifying glass, then classifying them into species ... and subspecies.
克萊爾博士自打成年起的大部分時光都在用放大鏡研究微小生物 并且將其分入種屬以及亞種
What if it doesn't exist?
假如它不存在呢？
What?
什么？
I mean, for a year now, you stopped everything to prove that tigermonk cicindele's exist Stopped everything?
我是說，都一年了，你放棄了一切就為了證明虎甲屬中確實存在虎和尚...放棄一切？
What do you mean, in a maternal sense or a scientific one?
你是指什么...是指作為母親的責(zé)任還是其他的科學(xué)研究？
What is it that you want me to start doing again? Or else I stopped doing?
你想讓我在已經(jīng)放棄的東西里找回來的是什么？
I don't know. Your research on the parasitic scolyte catepiller maybe?
我不知道 說不定是你對小蠹毛蟲的研究？
Your findings could've saved all the pine trees in Montana. Every other scientific attempt have failed.
你的發(fā)現(xiàn)可能會拯救蒙大拿所有的松樹 其他所有的科學(xué)研究都失敗了
Failed? Form the ecologists point of view, maybe.
失敗了？從生態(tài)學(xué)角度看，許是失敗了
But from the caterpillar's point of view, looks like a win win situation.
但從毛蟲的角度看卻像是雙贏的結(jié)果
Anyway I never liked pine trees. They're dripy and sticky. Some things are just meant to die.
但總之，我從沒喜歡過松樹 又潮又黏 有些東西生來就是要滅絕的
How my parents ever fell for each other is a mystery.
我的父母是如何相愛的是一個謎
