elephants

after more than a year and a half of legal wrangling , four female thai elephants are in their new mall amid australian sydney zoo.

经过一年半多的法律纠纷后，四头泰国雌象在澳大利亚悉尼动物园的新家安家落户了。

A pair of gaily painted domesticated elephants regard one another in a Jaipur park in India.

印度斋浦尔的一个公园里，一对被绘上了华丽图案的驯象互相在互相注视。更详细。

He said the elephants were killed Saturday.

他表示大象在星期六被杀害。

Elephants like to have one master just as dog do, and are capable of a considerable degree of personal affection.

大象和狗一样，喜欢有一个专一的主人，而且会对主人产生相当深厚的私人感情。

And the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and thirty-two elephants, trained to battle.

共计步兵十万，骑兵两万，受过军训的象三十二头。

When the old man heard the king's reply, he took his two sons to the royal elephant stables and selected twenty of the best elephants.

老人听到国王的答复后，就带着他的两个儿子赴了皇家象厩，挑选了二十头非常健壮的大象（elephant）。

I can't wait to see the elephants at the zoo. I wish I could see them in their natural habitat, but a zoo is the next best thing.

我迫不及待地想去动物园看大象。我最希望的是可以在它们的自然栖息地观察它们，但如今只能退而求其次，去动物园看看了。

The five men, who had heard of elephants but had never been close to one, asked the rider to allow them to touch the great animal.

这五个人未曾遇过这大象，请求商人让她们骑或是碰触这奇妙的动物。

The hunter would not have fired the shots if he had not seen a herd of elephants coming towards his campsite.

如若猎人没有看到一群象朝他的营地走来，他就不会开枪。

Scientists don't yet know why wild elephants seem to fare so much better than their zoo-raised counterparts.

科学家尚不清楚野生大象比动物园大象获得更好的原因。

"And I saw the elephants, " she said, "and what do you think they were doing? Picking up peanuts with their vacuums ! "

“我看见了大象，”她说，“你知道它们在干什么吗？正在用真空吸尘器捡花生呢。”

While other elephants will be anxiously Minato over, try to help it stand up, but in fact did not of much use.

虽然其他象群会忧心地凑过来，尽力想帮它站起身，但其实没多大用处。

To see how much less land birch would have covered, they used elephants as a proxy.

为了理解当时桦树覆盖的土地面积有多么少，他们用大象作比方。

The idea of the herd of elephants made the little prince laugh. "We would have to put them one on top of the other, " he said.

一群大象这种想法使小王子发笑：“那可得把这些大象一只叠一只地垒起来。”

So he introduced the genes of elephants into a cat's embryo. The result was - Phooey , a cat that was as big as an elephant!

于是他用大笨象的基因，注入猫的胚胎中，培育出一只大笨象般大的猫儿阿福来！

Since African elephants live where the sun is usually blazing hot, they use their trunks to help them keep cool.

自从非洲象开始生活的地方太阳如燃烧一样热，它们就用鼻子来保持凉爽。

Eleanor died where she fell, and was subsequently visited by elephants not only from her own family, but from four other families as well.

埃莉诺在她倒下的地方死去。随后就有大象前来看望。这些大象不光来自本象群，还有其他四个象群。

Mice are supposed to strike terror into the hearts of elephants - at least if Disney cartoons are to be believed.

人们通常认为老鼠会把大象吓得胆战心惊，至少在迪斯尼卡通片中是这么设定的。

He took God's power for granted, and went up with his infantry regiments, his horsemen by the thousands, and his eighty elephants.

他毫不想天主的威能，而只信赖他的几万步兵，数千骑兵和八十匹象。

Two main techniques have been used for training elephants, which we may call respectively the tough and the gentle.

驯象有两种主要的方法，我们分别称之为强硬法和温柔法。