水牛

We moved at the beginning of December, my wife big as a water buffalo.

我妻子的肚子大的像水牛一样。

From birth to breeding water buffalo are a long time to sell?

从出生养殖一头水牛要都长时间才能卖？

When the water buffalo saw Xingyuan, it began to cry.

当水牛看到兴元，就哭了起来。

We ride on the back of water buffalo and play in the side of pool when it is half afternoon.

而在阳光最慵懒的时刻，我们会骑在大水牛的背上，在池塘里消磨一个下午。

He looked like some kind of water buffalo.

他看起来像是某种水牛。

I remember last time when Comet bit a water buffalo and I felt really bad the whole day.

我还记得上次 Comet 把水牛给咬伤，我整天心里忐忑不安，有一种说不出的难过。

A few years later, one of his neighbors had a water buffalo that was too old to work. He was going to sell it to a butcher.

几年以后，王先生的一个邻居想要把他的水牛卖给屠夫，因为它已经老得干不了活了。

They walk through the countryside,and spend hours watching the water buffalo and the farmers working in the fields.

他们在乡村间转转，数几个小时都在看水牛以及在农田里工作的农民们。

The chief threat is expanding farmland, which is cutting into the water buffalo's habitat.

主要的威胁是扩大耕地，这是削减到水牛的栖息地。

Apparently, only water buffalo down a drink in one go, and dogs take two sips.

显然，只有水牛才能一口饮尽，而狗是两口。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。