One critic's response to the philosopher's new work is not that the position it takes is heretical, as some have asserted, but instead nothing new to anyone who knows anything about the topic.

一位评论家对这位哲学家的新著作的回应，并不是说它所采取的立场是异端邪说，就像有些人断言的那样，而是对任何对这个话题有所了解的人来说，它都不是什么新鲜事。

They've asked every animal, too, for miles around, and no one knows anything about him.

他们问了方圆几里的所有动物，可是没有人了解他的情况。

However, this is hardly proof that they will find anything worth extracting. At this stage no one actually knows how much gas is trapped in Polish shale.

但是这并不能证明他们就会在波兰开采到有用的东西，眼下没有人知道在波兰地下的页岩层中到底藏有多少页岩气。