太长

The elephant tried to reach the apple with his long nose, but it was too high..

大象用它的长鼻子去够苹果，可是果子太高，够不着。

There is another question reagarding to the two authors mentioned in the first sentence. The key word is "notwithstanding", which means the two authors were different from historians at their time in that they wrote about the black affluents.

还有1道细节题定位第二段，文章不长总共两段做完感觉暴差，用很多时间做这篇阅读，不保证文章大意的正确，自己做这篇的时候可能太紧张了心定不下来很多选项都是没把握的。

The stock was too far distant for him to see their condition, only that they were black baldies.

牲口离得太远，他看不清楚它们长得怎么样，只觉得都黑乎乎、光秃秃的。

The stock was too far distant for him to see their condition, only that they were black baldies. A porch stretched across the front of the tiny brown stucco house, four rooms, two down, two up.

牲口离得太远，他看不清楚它们长得怎么样，只觉得都黑乎乎、光秃秃的走廊，一幢褐色的泥房子，四个房间，上层两间，下层两间。

If the Allies were not stopped at the landings, their attack would carry at once into the heart of Germany; if they were stopped and their beachheads annihilated, it was unlikely that a new attempt could be made for a long time to come, and as many as fifty German divisions might thereby be freed for the struggle against the Soviet Union.

如果盟军的登陆不能被阻止下来，他们的攻击会立刻在德国的心脏地带展开；如果被成功的阻止了，而且滩头部队被歼灭的话，在接下来很长的一段时间内新的入侵就不太可能了，而且多达50个师的德军因此可以从与苏联对抗的挣扎中摆脱出来。

If the Allies were not stopped at the landings, their attack would carry at once into the heart of Germany; if they were stopped and their beachheads annihilated, it was unlikely that a new attempt could be made for a long time to come, and as many as fifty German divisions might thereby be freed for the struggle against the Soviet Union.

如果盟军的登陆作战不能被阻止的话，他们的攻击会立刻在德国的心脏地带展开；如果阻止成功，而且滩头部队被歼灭，那么在接下来很长的一段时间内，新的盟军入侵就不太可能实行了，而且多达50个师的德军可以因此从与苏联对抗的挣扎中摆脱出来。

If the Allies were not stopped at the landings, their attack would carry at once into the heart of Germany; if they were stopped and their beachheads annihilated, it was unlikely that a new attempt could be made for a long time to come, and as many as fifty German divisi***** might thereby be freed for the struggle against the Soviet Union.

如果盟军的登陆作战不能被阻止的话，他们的攻击会立刻在德国的心脏地带展开；如果阻止成功，而且滩头部队被歼灭，那么在接下来很长的一段时间内，新的盟军入侵就不太可能实行了，而且多达50个师的德军可以因此从与苏联对抗的挣扎中摆脱出来。

Catenas . The longest are from Commentaries on St.

最长的是来自评论，圣马太和罗马。

Until recent years, chimaeras hadn't received much study, so people treated the similar-looking creatures found in different spots across the world as the same species.

直到最近几年，嵌合体都没有得到太多的研究，因此人们认为长得十分相似，在世界各地的不同地点的同一物种中的生物。

Due to the difficulty and time limitation, we will only sing one choral prelude and one aria. However, we will present the entire two chapters of the Gospel and the 12 chorales.

整个清唱剧原本长达三个小时，由於演唱的难度和时间限制，我们今天只演唱一首前奏曲和独声咏叹调，但我们会演出马太福音26和27章的全部内容和12首圣咏合唱曲。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。