mastodon 中文意思是什麼
mastodon
解釋
n. 名詞 【古生物學】（第三紀的）柱牙象；龐然大物；大人物；〈美拳〉重量級拳擊家。-
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，一個傻瓜要是心裏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裡，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傢伙，他就會分別到五六家不同的藥房或雜貨店裡去買，因此，當追蹤線索的時候，就更容易了五六倍。然後，當他弄到他想要的東西以後，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裡呻吟，以致驚動了四鄰。 -
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
大角鹿與氂牛，巴珊238與巴比倫之公牛，猛獁象與柱牙象，均成群結隊湧向下陷之海死海239 。 -
Barnum called one of these animals, “ the last mastodon on earth ”. the animal was really an elephant called jumbo
伯紐姆把其中一種動物叫做「地球上最後一頭乳齒象」 。其實那是一頭名叫「大傢伙」的大象。 -
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，而她卻坐在家裡，試圖去掉地攤上的野象的味道。 -
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，而她卻只能坐在家裡設法清除地毯上的乳齒象的氣味。
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