The boy pulled up the hood of his elephant costume and made a cute little toot-toot sound with his toy elephant trunk.

那个小家伙向上拉起他身上那件大象衣服的帽子，用他那个玩具象鼻子吹出了可爱的、微弱的嘟嘟声。

This looks like an elephants trunk. - Am I dipping this in coconut water?

- 这看起来像象鼻。 - 我是在把这个浸在椰子水里吗？

With all his strength, he slammed it down on the elephant's trunk.

他使出全身的力气，把它摔在了象鼻上。

The most adventurous man touched the elephant's trunk.

最有冒险精神的人摸到了大象的鼻子。

Imagine a 500-pound pig, but with a small elephant trunk on its face—that's sort of what a lowland tapir looks like.

想象一头 500 磅重的猪，但它的脸上长着一个小象鼻——这有点像低地貘的样子。

I cannot demonstrate it, but it seems to me, that in the whale the sense of touch is concentrated in the tail; for in this respect there is a delicacy in it only equalled by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.

第三，我无法证明，但是在我看来，鲸鱼的触觉似乎集中在尾部；在这方面，与鲸鱼的敏感相称的只有象鼻的挑剔了。

(Laughter) Going back to our initial inspiration, the versatility of octopus arms and elephant trunks, we are now able to build soft continuum actuators that come closer and closer to the capabilities of the real thing.

（笑声） 回到我们最初的灵感， 章鱼手臂和象鼻的多功能性，我们现在能够构建越来越接近真实事物功能的软连续介质致动器。