A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
动物园
Zoo
I hate zoos.
我不喜欢动物园。
The Lord No Zoo.
上帝没有动物园。
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
生活是丛林中的动物园。
Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.
马龙更像是一个正式的动物园园长。
Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.
有人告诉我这一切都发生在动物园里。
For a deaf man, the world is a zoo of mime artists.
对于一个聋子来说,世界就是哑剧艺术家的动物园。
I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
我喜欢表演,但是带孩子们去动物园更有趣。
We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.
我们给所有的动物园提供食物。它变得越来越大。
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
显然,这座城市不是一个水泥丛林,而是一个人类动物园。
A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
人种是动物学家所说的一个物种的变种或细分。
My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
我父母过去常带我去宠物部,告诉我那是一个动物园。
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
任何人都可以成为一个伟大的摄影师,如果他们足够放大他们的爱。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
There is a better reason for studying zoology than its possible ‘usefulness’, and the general likeableness of animals. This reason is that we animals are the most complicated and perfectly designed pieces of machinery in the known universe. Put it like that, and it is hard to see why anybody studies anything else!
研究动物学有一个比它可能的“有用性”和动物的普遍可爱性更好的理由。这是因为我们动物是已知宇宙中最复杂、设计最完美的机器。这么说吧,很难理解为什么有人要学习其他东西!
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
部分由于我们现在拥有的诗人类型,部分由于资金,人们对诗歌的认知方式发生了巨大的转变……地铁上的诗,学校里的诗,足球俱乐部里的诗,动物园里的诗。
When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.
当我六岁的时候,我的父母带我去这个农贸市场和一个宠物动物园。他们让我骑上一匹小马,出于某种原因,它跑起来了,他们不得不把它追下来。他们告诉我这是一种创伤。
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
我认为有些人去动物园的猴子笼子感到不舒服是一个警告信号。
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
声名狼藉的瘟疫!我再也不敢在没有护送的情况下过马路了,我走到哪里都被人盯着看,就像皇室的白痴成员或动物园里的动物一样;动物园里的动物也会死于凝视。
The camel’s hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.
骆驼的驼峰是一个丑陋的肿块,你可以在动物园里看到;但更糟糕的是,我们因无事可做而陷入困境。