In the intervening years he became something of a jokester and goofball.

。其间多年，了一个乱开玩笑的怪人。

A self-confessed oddball, Mr Murakami is a peculiar memoirist.

并不否认自己是一个怪人，村上春树先生是一位特别的传记作。

Even today a man who stays at home to look after the children is regarded as something of an oddity.

即使在今天人们仍然认为在照看孩子的男人是个怪人。