The elephant flapped its ears.

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The elephant lowered its great bulk.

大象蹲下了它那庞大的身躯。

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They placed the African elephant on their endangered list.

他们把非洲大象列为濒危动物。

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The World Animal Protection ( WAP) says that up to 550,000 wild animals are exposedto ill treatment around the world; in Cambodia, for example, it's been reported that elephants have died after carrying tourists for long in hot weather.

世界动物保护组织（WAP）称，全世界有多达55万只野生动物正受到虐待；比如，柬埔寨的报道就称大象会因为在炎热天气载客时间过长而死亡。

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The sixth blind man went forward to feel the elephant.

第六个瞎子走上前去摸大象。

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A Kremlin-backed Russian investment fund has invested in the team building Elon Musk's Hyperloop, it has been revealed.

据披露，一家克里姆林宫支持的俄罗斯投资基金已经对马斯克的建造超级高铁的团队进行了投资。

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Tesla Motors CEO and technology investor Elon Musk said research in the area could be like summoning the demon that is beyond control.

特斯拉公司的CEO、科技投资人伊隆o马斯克表示，人工智能领域的研究有可能召唤出人类无法控制的恶魔。

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CEO Elon Musk must hope he can outdo Shai Agassi's Better Place, which tried to build a whole company around battery-swaps before going bankrupt in 2013.

CEO埃隆o马斯克肯定希望自己的运气比夏伊o阿加西的Better Place公司好一些，这家公司在2013年破产前做的就是电池更换充电站业务。

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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk unveiled a "master plan" for his Tesla electric car company this month.

本月，亿万富翁企业家埃隆•马斯克（Elon Musk）公布了一份其电动汽车公司特斯拉（Tesla）的“宏伟蓝图”（master plan）。

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Tesla Motors CEO and technology investor Elon Musk said research in the area could be like "summoning the demon" that is beyond control.

特斯拉公司的CEO、科技投资人伊隆o马斯克表示，人工智能领域的研究有可能“召唤出人类无法控制的恶魔”。

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On Friday morning, Musk answered Acton's tweet by saying "What's Facebook?"

星期五上午，马斯克回复Acton的推文说，“什么是Facebook？”

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Mr Musk was speaking a day after General Motors stole a march on rivals at the Detroit motor show by unveiling a battery electric concept car with a targeted price tag of$ 30000.

就在马斯克发表这番讲话一天前，在底特律车展上，通用汽车（General Motors）悄然抢占先机，披露了一款以电池电力推动的概念车，其目标价位定为3万美元。

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Unveiling the first prototypes of the car, designed as a starter luxury vehicle and priced at$ 35000 for the base model, Mr Musk confirmed that Tesla expected to hit its production target of late 2017 for the vehicle.

在发布这款车的首批原型时，马斯克证实，特斯拉预计会在2017年底实现这款车的生产目标。Model3是一款入门级豪车，其基本型定价为3.5万美元。

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Musk has responded in tweets and elsewhere that lots of cars catch on fire after road accidents.

马斯克已经在Twitter上以及其他场合回应说，许多车都会在发生交通事故后起火。

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Investors worried it would distract the company at a critical time, as it struggles to fix nagging production problems and accelerate a move to mass production of its next vehicle, the Model 3, by two years.

投资者担心，在特斯拉竭力消除持续不断的生产问题并加速向下一款车型Model3的大规模生产转型之际，马斯克此举会在关键时期把该公司注意力分散两年时间。

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Russia gets on board the Hyperloop: Government invests in Elon Musk's high speed transport system

俄罗斯登上超级高铁：政府投资马斯克的高速运输系统

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He's already delayed the introduction of his second car, the Model X, several times, and now it isn't due until 2015" s third quarter.

新车型要想成功是很难的，马斯克已经数次推迟了第二款车型Model X的发布，现在它可能要等到2015年第三季度才能正式上市。

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Mr. Musk is a guy who gets things done.

马斯克先生是能把事情干成的人。

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A cool 1m. At$ 35000, but with the sizzle of the Tesla brand and incorporating many of the features of the far more expensive Model S, Mr Musk has decided the 3 represents a breakthrough moment.

Model3售价3.5万美元，借助特斯拉品牌的热度，再加上纳入了昂贵得多的Model S的很多功能，马斯克认为，Model3代表着一个突破时刻。

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It could eventually, be like having a babysitter and a nurse rolled into one--or, if that required emotional intelligence beyond the power of Mr. Musk's imagined machine, at least someone to chop the carrots, wash the car and mow the lawn.

这最终就好像将保姆和护士合二为一了——又或者如果所需的情绪智力超过了马斯克先生设想中的机器人，那至少我们也会拥有会切胡萝卜、洗车或修剪草坪的帮手。

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So it is, perhaps, with an interview in which Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave to Germany's Handelsblatt.

德国商报采访特斯拉CEO埃隆·马斯克就是这种情况。

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