I had not mentioned my authorship of that rather technical work (after all, a neurologist's is not everybody's " shop" ), and I was agreeably surprised that Rutherford had even heard of it.

我没有提到我是那个相当技术性的作品的作者（毕竟，神经学家的作品不是每个人的“商店”），我很惊讶卢瑟福甚至听说过它。