For two months it seemed to me as if I were walking in a poem, and that I was going about in a fairy kingdom, on the back of imaginary elephants.
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我们的城市中贫民的苦况是现代社会的一大败象。
The poverty in our cities is a damning indictment of modern society.
《牛津词典》
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那是因为大型生物的繁殖速度十分缓慢,所以只要除去象群中的几头年轻的母象,它们的数量就会大幅的下降。
That's because very large animals have a slow rate of reproduction, so all you have to do is remove a few young females from the herd, and you can, fairly quickly, significantly reduce the population.