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动物园
Zoo
They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
他们让我写下来，然后把我放大了。但他们最终解雇了我。
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。
I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.
我得到了参观动物园的机会。我必须和考拉一起关在笼子里，我强烈推荐这一点。
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
第一次考试后，我转到哲学学院，在慕尼黑和维也纳学习动物学。
It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.
在动物园里总是要做一只猴子确实很老了。我不知道匿名是什么感觉了。
Basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
篮球是一项不适合人们玩的运动，除非他们把篮子的脐带放得高高的，然后把长颈鹿送回动物园。
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。
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
人们去动物园，他们喜欢狮子，因为它很可怕。还有熊，因为它很紧张，但是猴子让人发笑。
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
我发现，在动物学和植物学中都是如此:自然界的一切都是如此丰富，以致于那个地区产生了最多的品种，而这种品种又受到了最多的检验。
As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised in a barren environment.
你可能知道，自闭症儿童表现出来的一些刻板行为也存在于在贫瘠环境中长大的动物园动物身上。
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
我其余的工作，除了素描和记日记(这是最麻烦的工作)，就是收集地质和动物标本。
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
监狱和监狱的设计目的是破坏人类，把人类变成动物园里的标本——对我们的饲养员顺从，但对彼此危险。
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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。
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。
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。
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
动物园正在变成动物曾经在自然栖息地生活的复制品——或者可能是漫画。如果对自然采取正确的政策，我们就根本不需要动物园了。
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
画家也是律师，讲故事的人，心理学家，植物学家，动物学家，考古学家，工程师，但没有创造性的画家。
You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.
你可以用它做一些很慢的动作，比如放大一分半钟。观众没有意识到摄像机已经移动了，但潜意识里存在着紧张。