英语小达人 164 Our Tails

 　　Our Tails

　　我们的尾巴

　　The lecture on evolution had been going on for nearly two hours. After drinking some water, then the lecturer started again, "Let me ask the evolutionist a question-if we had tails like a baboon¹, where are they?"

　　关于进化论的演讲已经进行了快两个小时了。演讲者喝了一些水，又开始讲了：“我向进化论者提个问题——如果我们过去像狒狒那样长着尾巴，那么现在尾巴哪里去了？”

　　"I'll venture an answer," said an old lady. "We have worn them off sitting here so long."

　　“我来回答看看。”一位老老太太说，“我们在这里坐这么久，把尾巴磨掉了吧。”

1 baboon   

n.狒狒

参考例句：

• A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.狒狒是一种生活在非洲的大猴子。
• As long as the baboon holds on to what it wants,it's trapped.只要狒狒紧抓住想要的东西不放手，它就会被牢牢困住。