But no temperature made the melancholy mad elephants more mad or more sane.Their wearisome heads went up an down at the same rate, in hot weather and cold, wet weather and dry, fair weather and foul.

• 可是，不论何种温度都不会使得那些忧郁得发狂的大象变得更为疯狂，或者更为清醒，它们那令人生厌的脑袋不论天气是热是冷，是潮湿或是干燥，是好天气还是坏天气，总是以同样的频率上下摆动着。