stupid coat of her own, from the shangri-la salon, looming like a walrus or and angel of death, watching her.
她自己那件蠢大衣,在香格里拉沙龙买的,像一头海象,像死神派来的一个使者,阴森森隐浮着看她。
yeah, yeah, l was feeding a walrus this morning…
嗯,我今天早上喂海象了……
did the wretched witch watch a walrus washing?
可怜的巫婆看海象洗衣服吗?
an alternate name for a walrus that shows up in a few dictionaries—oed and the american heritage dictionary for example—is sea horse.
在一些词典中,如牛津英语词典和美国传统词典中替代海象名字的一个词是海马。
there we learn that a walrus was called a walrus by 1655 but that as an animal it had been known long before and appeared with other names in the writings of alfred the great back around 893.
neil: the museum「s over a hundred years old, so not many people in britain knew what a walrus looked like – including the taxidermist – so this one」s actually much fatter than it should be!