It is a repository of peculiar characters, settings and situations, flights of idiosyncratic language and jags of startling perception.

它是一座宝库，充满奇特人物、场景和情节，不寻常的奇幻语言，以及令人吃惊的洞察力。

So, there's a car called a Jaguar, but often people just call them a jag.

所以，有一种汽车叫做 Jaguar，但人们通常只称它们为 jag。

My kids have been on a thieving jag.

我的孩子染上了偷窃的毛病。

My kids have been on kind of a thieving jag, stealing stuff from around the neighborhood.

我的孩子们迷上了偷盗 从邻居们那儿偷东西。

You remember that time that your jag got sideswiped when it was parked outside the house?

你记得那次你的捷豹停在门外被刮蹭的事吗？

When dialogue is right, we know. When it's wrong we also know—it jags on the ear like a badly tuned musical instrument.

如果对话写得对劲，我们能看出来。如果不对劲，我们也能分辨——就像没调准音的乐器，在你耳边嘈杂作响。

Next one: " bag" , " jag" , " lag" , " rag" , " tag" , " wag" .

下一个：“bag”、“jag”、“lag”、“rag”、“tag”、“wag”。

" Have you seen my Jag? I've bought a new Jag. Come and have a ride in it." So, that's a jag.

“你看到我的捷豹了吗？我新买了一辆捷豹，快来骑一骑吧。”所以，这是一个锯齿。

I was not in the mood to go on a real crying jag, I would save that for bedtime, when I would have to think about the coming morning.

我没有痛痛快快大哭一场的心境，我会把它留到睡觉的时候，因为那个时候，我将不得不想一想来日的早上。

Then he flew back to the shore, alighted on the topmost jag of a stranded iceberg, and began to nod and bow as though he were on one of his favorite boulders in the midst of a sunny Sierra cascade.

然后他飞回岸边，降落在一座搁浅的冰山的最顶端，开始点头鞠躬，就好像他在阳光明媚的山脉瀑布中他最喜欢的一块巨石上。