Elephant

(noun.) five-toed pachyderm.

(noun.) the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874.

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• The weight of old Sabor was immense, and when she braced her huge paws nothing less than Tantor, the elephant, himself, could have budged her. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• She persisted until she finally conquered the elephant's prejudices, and now they are inseparable friends. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• On the march you saw her at the head of the regiment seated on a royal elephant, a noble sight. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He was miraculously conceived through his mother dreaming of a beautiful white elephant! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And if I catch an elephant? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I am stopping at the Elephant, she continued. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• What shall we say, sir, for the elephant? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Portrait of a gentleman on an elephant. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The boon companion of the colossal elephant was a common cat! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• As the tusk grows in length on the living elephant it also expands; but the cells grow larger and less compact as the tusk expands in circumference. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Old Tantor, the elephant, alone of all the wild savage life, feared him not--and he alone did Kerchak fear. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Or put it, my juvenile friends, that he saw an elephant, and returning said 'Lo, the city is barren, I have seen but an eel,' would THAT be Terewth? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• American metallurgy may have arisen independently of the old-world use of metal, or it may have been brought by these elephant carvers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As for Jos, even in that little interview in the garret at the Elephant Inn, she had found means to win back a great deal of his good-will. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Who'll bid for the gentleman on the elephant? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At Dewlish in Dorset, an artificial trench has been found which is supposed to have been a Pal?olithic trap for elephants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants--I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• There was nothing the young gentleman would have liked better, but elephants could not have dragged him back after the scolding he had received. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• But no temperature made the melancholy mad elephants more mad or more sane. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• There are pre-dynastic Neolithic Egyptian representations of Nile ships of a fair size, capable of carrying elephants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At first there were hippopotami, rhinoceroses, mammoths, and elephants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Also to Ceylon, specially for elephants' tusks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• We have already noted the name of King Porus whom, in spite of his elephants, Alexander defeated and turned into a satrap. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The pawns were little green and white men, with real swords and shields; the knights were on horseback, the castles were on the backs of elephants. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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