A Distinguished1 Naturalist2 was travelling in Australia, when he saw a Kangaroo in session and flung a stone at it. The Kangaroo immediately adjourned4, tracing against the sunset sky a parabolic curve spanning seven provinces, and evanished below the horizon. The Distinguished Naturalist looked interested, but said nothing for an hour; then he said to his native Guide:
“You have pretty wide meadows here, I suppose?”
“No, not very wide,” the Guide answered; “about the same as in England and America.”
After another long silence the Distinguished Naturalist said:
“The hay which we shall purchase for our horses this evening — I shall expect to find the stalks about fifty feet long. Am I right?”
“Why, no,” said the Guide; “a foot or two is about the usual length of our hay. What can you be thinking of?”
The Distinguished Naturalist made no immediate3 reply, but later, as in the shades of night they journeyed through the desolate5 vastness of the Great Lone6 Land, he broke the silence:
“I was thinking,” he said, “of the uncommon7 magnitude of that grasshopper8.”
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2 naturalist | |
n.博物学家(尤指直接观察动植物者) | |
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adj.荒凉的,荒芜的;孤独的,凄凉的;v.使荒芜,使孤寂 | |
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8 grasshopper | |
n.蚱蜢,蝗虫,蚂蚱 | |
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