This is largely because linguists, unlike laypeople, focus on grammar, not vocabulary.

这在很大程度上是因为语言学家与外行人不同，他们关注的是语法，而不是词汇。

To the layperson, trying to put a monetary value on human suffering seems an impossible exercise.

对外行人来说，试图用金钱来衡量人类的痛苦似乎不可能。

The problem strikes me, as a layperson, is maybe a gigantic coordination problem.

DUBNER：作为一个外行， 我觉得这个问题可能是一个巨大的协调问题。

So can you describe how you made that happen in a way that a layperson can understand.

那么您能否以外行人可以理解的方式描述一下您是如何实现这一目标的？

These religious leaders don't expect laypeople like you and me to know as much as they do about religious dress.

阿列克谢：这些宗教领袖并不期望像你我这样的外行人对宗教服饰的了解和他们一样多。

So did laypeople, of course, but they remembered the simple contracts as well as the lawyers did the complex ones; they understood them almost as well, too.

当然，外行也一样，但他们记得简单的合同，就像律师记得复杂的合同一样;他们也几乎能够互相理解。

The International Federation says World First Aid Day is to celebrate the numbers of lives saved both by first aid volunteers and by laypersons trained in first aid.

国际联合会称世界急救日是为了“庆祝那些被急救志愿者和学过急救技能的一般人所挽救的生命。

His book " A Brief History of Time" has sold millions of copies worldwide, introducing laypersons to complex ideas about space and time, black holes, and the Big Bang.

他的著作《时间简史》已在全球售出数百万册，向外行介绍了有关空间和时间、黑洞和大爆炸的复杂概念。

He wrote it for the scientific community,   and Newton did not include any of the customary summaries or metaphors to help laypeople  understand his work.

他是为科学界写的，牛顿没有包含任何习惯性的总结或隐喻来帮助外行人理解他的作品。

Unfortunately, bonds have been in the headlines so much over the, you know, probably since the global financial crisis that even laypeople understand that bonds go up and down and can go bust.

不幸的是，自全球金融危机以来， 债券一直是新闻头条，甚至外行人都知道债券价格有涨有跌， 也有可能破产。