1. spend time doing sth 花费时间做某事

例句：who spend time pulling strings of thorns through people's tongues probably didn't have in mind.
而马雅人忙着用荆棘穿过人们的舌头，大概从没想过以上解读方式。

2. a fringe belief 一个极端偏激的信念

例句：What should have stayed a fringe belief turned into mass hysteria with the 2012 disaster movie that swept the Academy Awards and the numerous Emmy-nominated apocalypse documentaries on The History Channel.
这原本应该只是一个极端偏激的信念，随着灾难电影《2012》横扫奥斯卡，加上《历史频道》多部获艾美奖提名的天启纪录片渲染，转变成为大众恐慌。

3. be inundated with 被···淹没

例句：Anyway, after this, NASA became so inundated with questions that they had to take time away from their busy robot building, frontier pushing, knowledge expanding, civilization inspiring schedule, to write a webpage.

NASA被大量涌入的问题淹没，还得从他们忙碌的打造机器人、开疆扩土、扩充新知及刺激文明发展的行程表中，抽空架网页。

4. the parade of ···的游行

例句：But the parade of crazy marched on anyway making wilder and wilder predictions for Earth.
但不论如何，这狂热的风潮持续延烧，对地球的预测也越来越不着边际。