These lectures and classes are given and taught by renowned authors, Harvard faculty, and other scientists. The purpose is to excite the public interest in natural history.

这些讲座和课程由知名作家、哈佛教授以及其他科学家担任主讲，目的是激起公众对自然史的兴趣。

I am curious to know why he excites your interest, for I am sure his peculiarities make him repugnant to a person of your robust common sense.

我很想知道他为什么会引起您的兴趣， 因为我相信他的怪癖会让他对您这种常识性很强的人产生反感。

The case was one of those which excite public interest, and it was a strange coincidence that this necklace, which had caused such a great commotion in France at the close of the eighteenth century, should create a similar commotion a century later.

此案是引起公众关注的案件之一，这条项链在 18 世纪末曾在法国引起如此巨大的轰动，一个世纪后却引起了类似的轰动，这真是一个奇怪的巧合。