I would hate to stand out like a sore thumb on my first day at this new school.

我可不想在新学校的第一天就显得格格不入。

I was standing out like a sore thumb and believe me that's not something you want to do on skid row.

我站在那里像一个酸痛的拇指， 相信我， 这不是你想在贫民窟做的事情。

" It was one of these oddball places that just stood out like a sore thumb in terms of the thorium abundance, " said Dr. Lawrence, now a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland.

“这是一个奇怪的地方，在钍丰度方面非常突出，”劳伦斯博士说，他现在是马里兰州约翰·霍普金斯大学应用物理实验室的行星科学家。