Sometimes — even more perplexingly — more than one message emanates from a single parent.

有时——甚至更令人困惑的情况下——父母并不只是传递一种消息。

It could scarcely be more complex than radium; it could hardly be deflected, diverted, polarized, absorbed more perplexingly than other radiant matter.

它几乎不会比镭更复杂；与其他辐射物质相比，它很难被偏转、转向、极化和吸收。