This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks.

我们这里说的不是灵异世界或者占卜板，而是与装下水道、开大卡车差不多的一份差事。

There was a pause while Dredge turned and laid his extinguished pipe carefully between a jar of embryo sea-urchins and a colony of regenerating planarians.

德雷奇转过身，小心翼翼地将熄灭的烟斗放在一罐胚胎海胆和一群正在再生的涡虫之间，停顿了一下。

" Young people are entitled to their own privacy; I don't want to pry" . He emptied his pipe into a chipped saucer on the table beside him, laid the pipe aside, and reverted to a former topic.

“年轻人有权享有自己的隐私； 我不想窥探” 。 他把烟斗倒在旁边桌子上的一个碎碟子里， 把烟斗放在一边， 又回到了之前的话题上。