||1:What is more taboo than a woman who is repulsed by her own child? This is the genius of “We Need to Talk About Kevin”, a remarkable novel from Lionel Shriver (a former literary critic for this paper), which considers the life of a reluctant mother after her teenage son commits mass murder.||2:The story unfurls as a stream of letters from Eva Khatchadourian to her husband as she retraces the steps of their lives together—the happy marriage that morphs into a toxic family, and the haunting event that casts everything in shadow.||3:Yet even as Eva recounts evidence of her son’s malevolence at a young age, the reader is left with a galling question: would Kevin have fared better if his mother loved him more.

||1:还有什么能比一个被自己亲生孩子憎恶的母亲更令人忌讳的呢？这就是《凯文怎么了》一书的精髓。它是莱昂内尔·施赖弗（本报的前任文学评论家）的一部杰出小说，讲述了一位母亲在自己十几岁的孩子犯下屠杀大罪后勉强度日的生活。||2:故事随着伊娃·卡查度瑞安写给丈夫的一连串信件展开，她追溯了他们共同生活的那些阶段——从一段美好婚姻走向了一个毒性家庭，还有那个让一切都变得灰暗的萦绕于心的事件。||3:然而即使伊娃重新搜集了她儿子幼年时狠毒本性的证据，读者仍然会被一个恼人的问题所困扰：如果他的母亲曾多爱他一些的话，凯文会不会好很多。

But the timing smacks of opportunism: based on the 180-day average, the premium morphs to a 9. 5 per cent discount.

但私有化时机有点投机取巧的味道：以停牌前180天的平均价格计算，溢价变成了9.5%的折让。

When the user puts his fingers on the surface of the screen a group of keys morphs around each individual finger.

当用户把手指放在屏幕表面是，一组键就出现在每一根手指旁边。

Broad-spectrum drugs or vaccines can’t do very much against a target that morphs so quickly.

广谱药物或疫苗对变化如此迅速的目标作用有限。

The greens inhabit areas covered with grass and relatively wet soils, but the pink morphs prefer gardens, drier areas, and woodlands.

绿色者栖居在覆盖着青草的地区和相对潮湿的土壤，但粉红色喜欢花园、干旱地区和林地。

Instantly, the cityscape morphs strangely and you now stand, in the same street, before a tent that obviously dates from Medieval times.

顷刻之间，城市景象发生了奇怪地变化，你还是站在那条街上，眼前却出现了中世纪的帐篷。

Although the two morphs have distinct preferences for soil moisture, mixed populations are not uncommon.

虽然这两个变种对于土壤湿度有截然不同的偏好，但混合种群的情况并不少见。

Over time, Godzilla morphs into a defender of Japan, but dangers begin to materialize within the nation itself.

随着时间的推移，哥斯拉摇身一变成为了日本的保护者，但危险开始在国家本身上体现。

As more and more of the available space is filled, the theory takes on increased validity and morphs into something we call a law.

随着越来越多的可获得空间被填充，理论获得了增加的正确性并逐渐形成了我们称之为定律的东西。

At each one an Overlord will eventually drift in and drop a Drone that slowly morphs into a big Zerg Virophage.

在每一个霸王最终会在某个无人机，慢慢的变种成一个大的虫族的Virophage。

Here, blonde morphs into steely resolve and impenetrable intellect.

这儿，金发变成了铁石心肠和不可捉摸的智慧的代名词。