在夏天初期我接触到那些早婚的女孩子时候，我曾听过一个老鼠和大象的故事。
I heard the story of the rat and the elephant one day in early summer, some weeks into my time among girls who are expected to marry very young.
老鼠和大象以及海豚和鲨鱼应该关在单独的笼子里的概念是非常直观的。
The notion that mice and elephants and dolphins and sharks should be housed separately is intuitive.
解决老鼠和大象的问题至少要求不同类型的消息通过不同的通道和传输队列。
Solving the mice and elephants problem requires, at a minimum, that the different types of messages pass through different channels and transmit queues.
我喜欢将这种情况描述为“老鼠和大象的问题”，因为用这些术语可以立即明白所述的问题。
I like to describe this as the "mice and elephants problem" because the issues are instantly recognizable in these terms. But there are many other species of message out there, too.
当我出现在现场的时候，始终看到的是非常危险的信号，并且老鼠、大象、负鼠、豪猪、海豚和鲨鱼全都在同一个空间中四处乱撞。
It is always a big red flag for me when I show up on site and find mice, elephants, opossums, porcupines, dolphins, and sharks all running around in the same space.
再看老鼠，和大象。
事实上，大象的股骨，只是老鼠的100倍厚，缩放比例和体积大小一样。
In fact, the femur of the elephant is only 100 times thicker, so it scales just as the size.
这意味着，如果把一头大象，和一只老鼠做比较，大象的总体积是，老鼠的大约100倍。
So this would mean that if you compare an elephant with a mouse the elephant's overall size is about 100 times larger than a mouse.
动物和昆虫：袋鼠，长颈鹿，老鼠，蜜蜂，狐狸，青蛙，大象。
Animals and insects: kangaroo, giraffe, mouse, bee, fox, frog, elephant, etc.
见见老鼠凯萨琳和大象马克。
对比大象和老鼠。
对比大象和老鼠。
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