海象

The tiniest deviation from any of these evolutionary shifts, and you might now be licking algae from cave walls or lolling walrus-like on some stony shore or disgorging air through a blowhole in the top of your head before diving sixty feet for a mouthful of delicious sandworms.

如果在生物进化过程中，发生一丁点儿的偏差，你现在就有可能是攀附在洞穴墙壁上的青苔，或者是懒散垂在礁石上海象，头顶上的鼻孔喷着气，正准备跳下六十英尺尝一口美味的小海鲜呢。

The males have enormous noses called platters which can be flatted.

公海象的鼻子扁平如浅盘。

Suddenly it seems as if the dawn were coming: it is like water purling over ice and the ice is blue with a rising mist, glaciers sunk in emerald green, chamois and antelope, golden groupers, sea cows mooching along and the amber jack leaping over the Arctic rim

突然黎明仿佛就要来临，天上像是有水在冰上流动，而上升的雾气又使冰呈青色，冰河沉入一片翠绿色之中，小羚羊、大羚羊、金枪鱼和海象在天边徘徊游荡，而狮鱼一跃跃出了北极圈

If you want to see pups, you should go in January.

如果你想见见海象的幼兽，你应该在一月时前往该地。

Walruses are highly social animals, frequently congregating in large groups and communicating with loud bellows and snorts.

海象是高度群居动物，经常聚成一大群，通过大声吼叫或喷气进行交流。006。海象叠罗汉

The immediate concern of new, massive walrus groups for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is danger to the animals from stampedes.

美国鱼类和野生动物管理局担心集体大迁移的海象会发生踩踏的危险。

It contains stunning images of wildebeests thundering across the savanna at twilight, and a walrus rising out of the sea in Canada, showing off his tusks as the waves and ice crash around him.

书中纳入角马在黄昏雷鸣般穿越大草原的绝妙图片，以及在加拿大，海象在海中立起、在海浪和破碎海冰的冲击下，露出獠牙的图片。

The tuskarr are a kind-natured nomadic race that roams the southern coastlines of Northrend, guided by the carved cyclopean statues that mark their seasonal fishing routes.

海象人是一支天性平和的游牧民族，游荡在诺森德的南部海岸上；那些巨大的雕像标记着他们各个季节的捕鱼途径。（译者注：记得之前那些恶搞复活节雕像的巨像吗？

They also ___ on carcasses of whales and young walruses.

它们也___鲸和小海象的尸体。

Whales and dolphins manate es and dugongs walruses seals .

鲸和海豚；和儒艮；海象；海豹。

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。