1. And good poetry criticism among students is becoming as rare as clog dancing.
而好的诗歌批评在学生当中也正变得和18世纪的木屐舞一样罕见。
2. He''s clog dancing, I think, wearing lederhosen.
他在跳舞，还穿着小马褂
3. She needed a partner for a clog dancing class.
她在舞蹈课上需要一个舞伴。
4. Religion in the United States is by and large a civilizational matter, whereas in England it is largely a traditional way of life-more akin to high tea or clog dancing than to socialism or Darwinism-which it would be bad form to take too seriously (the highly English Dawkins is in this respect egregiously un-English).
在美国宗教基本上属于文明，而在英国，宗教基本上是传统生活方式，更类似黄昏茶点或踢踏舞而不是社会主义或者达尔文理论，过分认真对待是不好的形式（在这点上，英国味很浓的道金斯异乎寻常地具有非英国色彩。