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A century ago southern Africa's elephants were driven close to extinction by indiscriminate ivory hunting. Now there are so many of them that experts say they are threatening the environment.

据路透社12月15日报道，一个世纪以前，由于受到获取象牙者的猎杀，生活在南非的象群无不面临着灭顶之灾；然而100年后的今天，那里的大象数量却又发展得如此&壮大&，以至于严重威胁到了当地的生态环境，甚至人身安全。

He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel and his eyes fell on a huddle of these weirdos standing quite close by.

当他驶到街的拐角处时，他发现了第一件不寻常的事情——一只猫在看地图。

He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel and his eyes fell on a huddle of these weirdos standing quite close by.

他的手指不耐烦地敲击着方向盘，并目又看了看近处一群衣着古怪的人。

He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel and his eyes fell on a huddle of these weirdos standing quite close by.

他用手指敲击着方向盘，目光落到了离他最近的一大群怪物身上。

He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel and his eyes fell on a huddle of these weirdos standing quite close by.

德斯利先生无聊地敲着方向盘，眼睛瞟向聚在一起的那些异类，他们正兴致勃勃地低声交流着什么。

He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel and his eyes fell on a huddle of these weirdos standing quite close by.

他用手指敲打着方向盘并看着旁边古怪人群。

Whether all the enemy's forces were, as we had assumed, ten versts away from us, or whether they were close by in that stretch of fog, no one knew till nine o'clock.

正如我们推测的那样，敌人的全部兵力是否盘踞在十俄里以外的地方，抑或滞留在这一片雾霭之中，――八点多钟以前谁也不知道实情。

In Ufology, any extraterrestrial contact initiated by humans is known as a Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind.

在不明飞行物学中，人类与外星任何形式的接触都被称为第五类接触。

In fact only by considering benzene to be a resonance hybrid comprising at least a pair of cyclohexatriene resonance structures can we come at all close to an accurate picture of the real molecule.

事实上，只有把苯看作是至少由一对环己三烯共振结构（叫做 Kekule 结构）组成的共振杂化体，我们才能全面接近真实分子的精确图像。

I've once had close friends who were actually quite offended by my 'healthy living' advices because, I think, they think of me as a party pooper regardless of whatever situations we were in. They are so used to the life they are living and that they just don't want to change and listen to any comments that I can give.

我曾经亲密的朋友其实是谁冒犯了我的'健康生活'意见，因为我觉得，他们认为我是一个党的狂欢夜，无论什麼情况下我们英寸他们习惯的生活，他们生活而且他们只是不想改变，并听取任何评论，我可以提供。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。