M - mastodon 中文 - EN166

mastodon n.【古生物學】(第三紀的)柱牙象；龐然大物；大人物；〔...

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Amongst us a simpleton , possessed by the demon of hate or cupidity , who has an enemy to destroy , or some near relation to dispose of , goes straight to the grocer s or druggist s , gives a false name , which leads more easily to his detection than his real one , and under the pretext that the rats prevent him from sleeping , purchases five or six grammes of arsenic - if he is really a cunning fellow , he goes to five or six different druggists or grocers , and thereby becomes only five or six times more easily traced ; - then , when he has acquired his specific , he administers duly to his enemy , or near kinsman , a dose of arsenic which would make a mammoth or mastodon burst , and which , without rhyme or reason , makes his victim utter groans which alarm the entire neighborhood 在我們的人社會里，一個傻瓜要是心里懷有仇恨或動了貪念，想除掉一個仇人或除去一個近親，他就會徑自跑到雜貨店或藥房里，借口老鼠吵得他無法睡覺，要買五六克砒霜，他還會捏造一個假名字，而那卻比真名字更容易被識破，假如他真是一個狡猾的家伙，他就會分別到五六家不同的藥房或雜貨店里去買，因此，當追蹤線索的時候，就更容易了五六倍。然后，當他弄到他想要的東西以后，他就莽莽撞撞地給他的仇人或近親吃一付砒霜，其份量之重，就是古代的巨象或恐吃了也會五臟崩裂的，就這樣毫無意義地使他的受害者在那里呻吟，以致驚動了四鄰。
Often i have visited the new york museum of natural history to touch with my hands many of the objects there exhibited , but i have longed to see with my eyes the condensed history of the earth and its inhabitants displayed there - animals and the races of men pictured in their native environment ; gigantic carcasses of dinosaurs and mastodons which roamed the earth long before man appeared , with his tiny stature and powerful brain , to conquer the animal kingdom ; realistic presentations of the processes of development in animals , in man , and in the implements which man has used to fashion for himself a secure home on this planet ; and a thousand and one other aspects of natural history 但我渴望親眼看到地球和那里陳列的地球上居民的濃縮歷史在他們自然環境里展示出的動物和人類種族；曾在人類出現之前，很早就在地球上漫游的巨大恐龍和柱牙象骨架，人類以他小巧的身材和強有力的大腦征服了動物王國；動物，人類和人類工具的發展過程的逼真展現，人類曾用這些工具在這個星球上來建造他們安全的家園，還有其它許許多多的自然歷史方面。
Often i have visited the new york museum of natural history to touch with my hands many of the objects there exhibited , but i have longed to see with my eyes the condensed history of the earth and its inhabitants displayed there ? animals and the race of men pictured in their native environment , gigantic carcasses of dinosaurs and mastodons which roamed the earth long before man appeared , with his tiny stature and powerful brain , to conquer the animal kingdom , realistic presentations of the processes of evolution in animals , in man , and in the implements which man has used to fashion for himself a secure home on this planet , and a thousand and one other aspects of natural history 我經常到紐約自然歷史博物館去，用雙手無數次地撫摸過那里陳列的展品，我多么渴望能用自己的眼睛看一看這濃縮的地球的歷史，以及陳列在那里的地球上的居民? ?各種動物和以他們生活的天然環境為背景描繪的不同膚色的人種；以及早在人類出現以前就漫游在地球上的恐龍和柱牙象的巨大骨架，當時的人類靠自己矮小的身軀和發達的大腦征服了動物的王國；還有表現動物和人類進化過程的逼真畫面，和人類用來為自己在這個星球上建造安全居處的工具，以及另外許許多多自然歷史的其他方面的事物。
Parallax stalks behind and goads them , the lancinating lightnings of whose brow are scorpions . elk and yak , the bulls of bashan and of babylon , mammoth and mastodon , they come trooping to the sunken sea , lacus mortis 大角鹿與牦牛，巴珊238與巴比倫之公牛，猛犸象與柱牙象，均成群結隊涌向下陷之海死海239 。
Barnum called one of these animals , “ the last mastodon on earth ” . the animal was really an elephant called jumbo 伯紐姆把當中一種什么樣的動物叫做“地球上最后剩余僅有的一頭乳齒象” 。其實那是一頭名叫“大家伙”的大象。
Marsha : he ' s out banging other women over the head with a club , while she sits at home trying to get the mastodon smell out of the carpet 瑪莎:他在外面亂搞女人，而她卻只能坐在家里設法清除地毯上的乳齒象的氣味。
He ' s out banging other women over the head with a club , while she sits at home trying to get the mastodon smell out of the carpet 應該是“他在外面亂搞女人，而她卻坐在家里，試圖去掉地攤上的野象的味道。
Barnum called one of these animals , “ the last mastodon on earth ” . the animal was really an elephant called jumbo 伯紐姆把其中一種動物叫做“地球上最后一頭乳齒象” 。其實那是一頭名叫“大家伙”的大象。