Eighty-three elephants were lost in 2015 alone, and another fifty-one elephant were killed in 2016. "If this situation goes on, all the Gourma elephants will be killed by 2020," said a member of MEP. Luckily, the voice of MEP was heard.
仅在2015年就有83头大象失踪，2016年就有51头大象被杀害。“如果这种情况继续下去，到2020年，吉尔马的所有大象都将被猎杀。”马拉大象项目的一名成员说。幸运的是，MEP的诉求被听到了。
One elephant can eat 300 pounds (136 kilograms) of food in one day.
一头大象一天能吃掉300磅(136kg)的食物。
One of the main places in Asia where the elephant lives is the island of Ceylon.
在亚洲，大象生活的主要地方之一是锡兰岛。
Wildlife was also elusive: I spotted a water buffalo, a couple of goats, several egrets and kingfishers but not one - in the fabled Land of a Million Elephants - elephant.
野生动物也难觅踪影：我看见一只水鸟、两头山羊、几只白鹭和翠鸟，但是在这个号称有百万大象的地方，连一头大象也没有看到。
The elephant analogy is still the best one I know of to illustrate good goal setting.
“大象比喻”仍然是一个我觉得能解释目标设定的最好比喻。
One enormous demonstration of Vathana's and his team's commitment to remote communities bordering elephant habitat was their role in the creation of schools.
法萨那和他的小组投身于和象群栖息地毗邻的偏远社区，他们的一大行动就是在学校的创建中扮演重要角色。
And in one family in Somerset, an old pair of gray flannel trousers proved the basis for a pull-along elephant.
而一个在萨默塞特郡的家庭甚至用一条旧法兰绒裤子为基础做了一个能拖着走的大象。
The debate over whether the African elephant is one or two species has been going on for about a decade.
关于非洲象是一个还是两个物种的争论已经持续了差不多十年。
In a second commercial, the owner of a new Forester bids farewell to his old one at the automotive equivalent of the elephant graveyard: a salvage yard where Subarus are parked for the last time.
第二个广告中描述一位斯巴鲁丛林者的使用者站在他的新车旁边在大象墓园与他那辆老斯巴鲁道别：斯巴鲁最后停泊的汽车救援停车场。
Analysing it through each of them in turn should give us an advantage over the blind men in providing seven parts of the elephant to get hold of rather than one.
依次分析之后，我们会比那些盲人前进一大步，因为我们会摸到这头大象的七个部分而不止一个。
Move everything to one side of the room. Ask your roommate if he knows how much an elephant weighs, and look at the floor on the empty side of the room with concern.
把房间里所有东西都移到墙边，一边很认真地盯着地板看，一边问你室友：你觉得一头大象能有多重呢？
The other friends had different replies. One said an elephant is like a large leaf, another said it was like the trunk of a tree, and the last one said that the elephant is like an immense wall.
其他人也各持己见，一个说大象像一片大树叶，另一个说大象像树干，还有一个说大象像一堵墙。
Now we understand why we have not seen a single living elephant, or a sign of one, in the eight days since we entered the park.
现在我们才明白为什么我们一路走来就没有看到过一头活生生的大象，连一处痕迹都没有，要知道我们进入园区都已经8天了！
Mr Gopinath, one of many sceptics about the merger, says it is "like tying together two legs of an elephant."
对这次合并持怀疑态度者之一的Gopinath先生说“这次合并就像把一头大象的两条腿绑在一起。”
It was not, of course, a wild elephant, but a tame one which had gone "must."
那家伙显然不是一头野象，它只是一头发了情的驯象。
One chilly evening some years ago in Zambia, I met a baby elephant wrapped in a red blanket.
几年前一个寒冷的晚上，我在赞比亚见到了一只裹着红色毛毯的小象。
When asked about giving people ideas, one of the characters noted that it is easy - just tell them to not think about something, like don't think about an elephant.
当被问及如何给人想法时，其中一个角色说，这很简单——只要告诉他们不要想某些事就成，例如，不要想一头大象。
The picture of elephant conservation across Africa is a mixed one.
整个非洲的大象保护情况是多样的。
Even if you perfectly remember what an elephant is, you will often fail to enumerate one of its features mentioned in the answer.
即使你很清楚什么是大象，你可能会经常漏掉答案里的一两个特征。
To use a famous analogy: the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.
举个著名的类比：吃掉大象的方法就是一次一口。
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.
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。
One day in the afternoon, in the garden of the famous Giant Elephant Group Headquarter Building located in Manhattan, New York, a gray-haired old man was concentrating on trimming low shrubs.
一天下午，位于纽约曼哈顿的著名企业巨象集团总部大厦楼下的花园里，一位头发花白的老人正在聚精会神地修剪低矮的灌木。
It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant — it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery — and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.
射杀一头能干活的大象可是件非常严重的事——相当于毁掉一台昂贵的重型机械——很明显，应该尽力避免此类事情的发生。
Sometimes Jeremy is the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about, afraid to upset someone.
有时候“杰里米”就像是一个难言之隐，无人愿意提及，他们害怕让别人难受。
One day an old Elephant sought refuge from the heat of the sun in the shade of the woods where the Carpenters worked.
一天，一头老年的大象到木匠们干活的森林里来，想在树荫下躲避烈日。
The Beijing Zoo, for one, has opened a much larger elephant enclosure and replaced the concrete in its otter exhibit with natural materials and waterfalls.
北京动物园有建造一个很大的大象围场，取代用混凝土修筑，在里面还有水濑在自然的环境和人造瀑布下表演。
The mouse has indeed only one centimeter length of the femur and the elephant is, indeed, hundred times longer.
1厘米,这是老鼠的股骨长度,大象的长度，是它的整整100倍。
According to internet facts, the pressure on the heel of a stiletto is greater than that of an elephant standing on one foot .
折磨！根据网上的信息，对一只高跟鞋后跟的压力，要比一只大象站立的压力还大。
According to internet facts, the pressure on the heel of a stiletto is greater than that of an elephant standing on one foot .
折磨！根据网上的信息，对一只高跟鞋后跟的压力，要比一只大象站立的压力还大。
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