" Oh, no, " said Baby Elephant. I ran away from the circus.

“噢，不是，”小象说。我是从马戏团跑出来的。

" They're lovely hills, " she said. " They don't really look like white elephants. I just meant the coloring of their skin through the trees."

“这些山真是美极了，”她说，“看上去并不是真的像一群白象。我说的是透过树木看到山表面的颜色是白的。”

But I should need to be a herd of elephants, I thought, and a wilderness of spiders, desperately referring to the animals that are reputed longest lived and most multitudinously eyed, to cope with all this.

但我需要成为一群大象，我想，和蜘蛛的荒野， 绝望地指着那些被认为寿命最长、眼睛最多的动物，来应对这一切。