9.A leading British ethno-biologist, wrote the Economist in 1995, thinks a megatherium, a sort of giant ground sloth which may stand as high as a giraffe ... may lurk in the fastnesses of the Amazon basin.
“一位著名的英国民族生物学家认为,”《经济学家》杂志l995年写道,“有一种高如长颈鹿的大地懒,有可能出没在亚马孙河流域僻静的丛林里。”