Culture is the basis of animal metaphor, since it influences the size of animal metaphor and takes the form of the stereotypes of animals which serve as the source domain of animal metaphors.

文化是动物隠喻的基础，它决定着动物隐喻的规模并塑造动物隐喻中作为源域的动物固定形象。

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Thus the anaerobic energy reserves of a vertebrate are proportional to the size of the animal.

因此，脊椎动物的无氧能量储备与动物的大小成正比。

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A rock hyrax, an animal the size and shape of a beaver but, oddly enough, a relative of the elephant, was sunning itself on a rock by the front gate.

一只岩兔，一种像海狸那样大小的动物在大门口附近的山岩上跑过，奇怪的是它竟然是大象的近亲。

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Most animals can travel in the belly of passenger planes, but Lufthansa also has a fleet of 18 freight aircraft which can accommodate all shapes and size of animal -- be it hippopotamuses en route to the Philippines from Israel or rhinos and even crocodiles.

CNN: All creatures great and small at Frankfurt's Animal Lounge

It is also nothing short of scandalous to suggest that an animal of that size was 'lethal'.

BBC: Animal Underworld

Right whales have one of the smallest brain-to-body-size ratios of any cetacean, the longest penis in the animal kingdom (averaging more than seven feet or 2.3m) and testes with a combined weight of one tonne.

ECONOMIST: The lives of whales