1. The pavilion has become a £4 million steel and glass white elephant.
这个耗资400万英镑、用钢与玻璃所构筑起的亭子已经成了一个华而不实的摆设。
2. His tour de force is an elephant sculpture.
他的精心之作是一件大象雕塑。
3. The new office block has become an expensive white elephant.
这座新办公大楼成了昂贵的摆设。
4. The hunter was trampled to death by a wild elephant.
那猎人被一头野象踩死了.
5. The animal in the picture was a female elephant.
照片上的动物是头母象.
6. It's obvious that a man isn't strong enough to lift an elephant.
很明显,一个人是不能举起大象的.
7. The next stage is to get the elephant to the trainning establishment.
下一步就是把象送到驯象基地.
8. The elephant dwarfed the tortoise.
那只乌龟跟那头象相比就显得很小.
9. The angry elephant crashed through the forest.
愤怒的大象闯过森林.
10. An elephant's nose is extraordinarily long!
大象的鼻子特别长!
11. The elephant's trunk is bigger than other animals '.
大象的鼻子比其他动物的大.
12. The elephant plunged into the forest.
大象猛地冲入森林.
13. Above him, in a niche on the wall, sat a tiny veiled Ganesh, the elephant god.
在他上方墙上的壁龛里安放着一尊极小的蒙面象头神伽内什的塑像。
14. He received praise for the atmospheric monochrome shots in David Lynch's The Elephant Man.
他在大卫·林奇的电影《象人》中所拍摄的那些渲染气氛的黑白镜头受到了好评。
15. Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old.
化石搜集者们发掘出了一具大象骨骼,据信距今已有50万年。
Hair helps keep you warm, right? But hair can also keep you cooler than bare skin, as long as the hair is not too thick. So says a study in the journal PLoS ONE.
Researchers studied elephants, which have very thin coats of hair. It's easy for the beasts to overheat: they may face temperatures of up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit, and they don't have much skin surface area to radiate the heat relative to their big body volume.
That's where the hair comes in. The researchers wrote equations modeling the elephants' hairy skin. As they expected, thick hair traps air and keeps the body warm. But below a certain density, hair stops insulating and wicks heat off the body instead—helping the elephants get rid of an extra 20 percent of their body heat, especially on windless days.
Heat sinks inside computers work in a similar way, with pins sticking up to help dissipate the interior heat.
电脑内部的散热器就是以类似的方式,利用突出的插脚帮助内核散热。
The researchers speculate that hair may have actually evolved to help animals stay cool, because it first sprouted in mammals over a hundred million years ago in a hot climate. Hair-raising times, indeed.
Elephants are like us in some ways. They live for a long time——fifty or sixty years. They can remember things very well. They never forget sadness or great happiness for many months.
Elephants are like us, but they are also different.
They live in families: families of females. There will be a few young males a few baby boys. But the females will soon send them away. An elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers, grand mothers and its great grandmothers. They stay together for fifty, sixty... a hundred years. The older animals look after the young ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example.
And what happens to male elephants? Well, the young males stay with their mothers for a time. Then they must leave the family. The females just send them away. A bull elephant doesn't often have a friend. He [ives apart, away from the family, and often away from other bulls.
Sometimes the females call a bull. He can visit them then, and stay for a time. But soon his "wives" and sisters send him away again. The females have a very happy familly life. What do the bulls think about it? We don't know.