This was, in some ways, Daft Punk's hope all along.

There's another music-biz axiom that Daft Punk's flouted this year, much to the chagrin of its fans: Namely, that when you've got an album as big as this one, you've got to get out and play it live.

傻朋克今年还鄙视了另一条音乐行业的公理，让其信奉者大为懊丧。这条公理是：推出这样盛大的一张专辑，你必须亲自出马搞现场演出。

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For 2001's Discovery, Daft Punk introduced a new look, in the form of impenetrably sleek robot getups.

为录制2001年的《发现》（Discovery），傻朋克推出了一副新的装扮：光滑？亮而又密不透风的机器人服装。

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Nile will perform an August 19 charity concert in New York-but says Daft Punk will definitely not join him.

尼尔将出席8月19日在纽约举办的慈善音乐会，但表示傻瓜朋克肯定会不加入。

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Ever since their 1997 debut, Homework, Daft Punk's been at the vanguard of electronic music, creating one sample-jacking, endorphin-morphing hit after another.

自从1997年发行第一张专辑《家庭作业》（Homework）以来，傻朋克一直走在电子音乐的前列，一首接一首地推出让同行抄袭、让听众或痛或喜的热门歌曲。

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This is understandable, given that, on paper at least, the album would seem like a potential disaster-a record that found the duo turning away from the type of sound that's made Daft Punk one of the most memorable and unpredictable acts of the last 20 years.

这种不解是可以理解的，因为至少从表面上看，这张专辑似乎将要败得一塌糊涂。让傻朋克成为过去20年最难忘、最变化莫测搭档之一的那种声音，在这张唱片里已经消失不见。

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Daft Punk never had a problem selling out huge venues, but the group's scarcity has only increased their fans' demand for more stage time.

傻朋克的大型表演从来不愁卖，但这个组合很少演出这一点只会让歌迷更加希望他们多在舞台上演出。

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Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams remain within sight of the prize this week, but it's still a no-go:

傻瓜朋克和菲瑞本周仍然斩获殊荣，但却是止步不前：

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As anyone who saw that photo knows, the members of Daft Punk pretty much look like dudes who would listen to Daft Punk.

看过照片的人都知道，傻朋克成员的相貌跟傻朋克的普通听众没有什么两样。

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The incident appears to have only mildly irked Daft Punk, but not for the reasons you'd expect.

这一事件好像只给傻朋克造成了一点小小的烦恼，但并不是因为你所以为的原因。

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The quirky vocal group Pentatonix has reflected that change, starting with YouTube and culminating in one of last year's top-selling albums, and on Sunday the group won best instrumental or a cappella arrangement for its track "Daft Punk."

诡异的声乐组合“Pentatonix”就反映了这种变化，他们从YouTube网站起步，一跃而为去年最畅销的组合，星期日，这个组合凭其《蠢朋克》（Daft Punk）一曲获得了最佳器乐或无伴奏合唱编曲奖。

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She's not as daft as she looks.

她并不像看上去那么傻。

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An even wackier proposal is that, along with their rations, soldiers of the future will ingest "biomarkers".

一个更怪的建议是，除配给外，未来的战士要吃下生物标识器。

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Sooty was joined in the ranks of the world's weirdest and wackiest achievers by Briton Paul Hunn who scooped the record for the world's largest burp.

与黑子一起跻身世界上最为怪异的创纪录者行列的还有名叫布赖顿·保罗·哈恩的人，他了世界上打嗝声音最为嘹亮的人。

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Those wacky golfers had a pretty good year.

那些古怪高尔夫球手也过了他们愉快的一年。

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There are all sorts of things snubs like to share for immediate2 consumption, ranging from wacky facial expressions to pictures of a meal they're about to eat.

快照族之间有很多可以分享的“速食”，比如搞怪的脸部表情或者他们即将要吃的食物。

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But the wacky cat videos are still important, and will remain a staple of Youtube.

不过，古怪宠物视频仍然很重要，而且仍将是YouTube的一根顶梁柱。

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Traditions vary widely around the world, and the ways of one society often seem downright wacky to others.

世界各地的传统都不尽相同，一个地区的风俗对于其他地方来说可能甚为古怪。

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He decided to become a clown to join the wacky world of the circus.

他决定当一个小丑，加入到滑稽逗人的马戏世界中去。

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We could even get wacky and embed interactive controls like a Calendar control within the Button

我们甚至可以搞些古怪，在按钮内嵌入可交互的象日历这样的控件

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This wacky pair of stilettos are cunningly disguised as coffee pots with hot liquid pouring out.

这双古怪的细高跟鞋被巧妙地塑造成正在倒出热咖啡的咖啡壶。

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