Day4:what the dog saw

note:括号内为本人标注

In the best of these pieces, what we think isn’t the issue.

这本书中最棒的部分，是那些我们不当回事的东西。（有译文是: 阅读这些文章的价值，不在于问题的本身。所以强调的是问题的本质or内涵?）

Instead, I’m more interested in describing what people who think about homelessness or ketchup or financial scandals think about homelessness or ketchup or financial scandals.

相反/而是（可译成比如，此处为举例），我更感兴趣的是那些思考无家可归或者番茄酱抑或是经济丑闻的人，他们到底想的什么。

I don’t know what to conclude about the Challenger crash. It’s gibberish to me — neatly printed indecipherable lines of numbers and figures on graph paper.

我不知道怎么给挑战者爆炸定论，对我来说有点费解，对我来说那就是报纸上一排排印刷整齐的数字和图像。（同理于高数书上，每个字都认识，但是连一起就不知道在讲什么了）

But what if we look at that problem through someone else’s eyes, from inside someone else’s head?

但是如果我们是通过其他人的眼睛寻找问题答案呢?就比如从一些人的思想里。

You will, for example, come across an article in which I try to understand the difference between choking and panicking.

举个例子，纵观一篇文章，我全力去理解紧张到不知所措和惊慌失措的区别。（原来只知道choking有窒息之意，因为有装饰物choker，还有紧张到失灵，意译为不知所措，而panicking就是恐慌之意，惊慌失措）