The upside of delayed publication, if there is one, is that his arguments seem more compelling now - and people are less likely to view him as a crackpot counter-culturalist.(如果非得說他延遲出版該書的好處，那便是他的觀點現在看起來是如此的引人注目，使人有種逼迫感，而且人們也不大可能再把洛西克夫視為一個反主流文化的怪人。)

To all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers, on your side of the path.(所有身上有裂紋的朋友，祝你們天天快樂，每天不要忘記去聞聞你身邊的花香。)

He could tell you a hundred different schemes, all of them crackpot, and all of them had been tried in the Shank at one time or another.(他可以告訴你一百種不同的越獄方法，每一種都很瘋狂，而且肖申克的犯人都嘗試過。)

These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptlylabeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.(在現在這個時代，任何人膽敢站起來對這個原理（“不代表，勿上稅”）說不會立刻被打上“瘋子”和“叛徒”的標簽，以及面臨更糟的待遇。)

That crackpot thinks his neighbors are aliens.(那位瘋子認為他的鄰居是外星人。)

Various agricultural schemes were floated, including, in the 1820s, a crackpot colonisation of Hawaii.(眾多農業計劃浮出水面，其中包括1820年代殖民夏威夷的奇思異想。)

So who is Becker? A far out crackpot or wild conspiracy theorist?(那么誰是貝克爾？一個極不尋常的瘋子或狂野的陰謀論者？)

To all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers.(致我的身殘的朋友們：快樂一天，記得去聞那花香！)

So when someone uses the expression “crackpot”, he means that the person’s mind is a little bit broken.(所以，當有人使用“crackpot”這個詞語時，他是指這個人的腦子有點破損。)

Is the man a crackpot or a genius?(我眼前的這個男人到底是瘋子還是天才？)