Moreover, from being so long in twilight or darkness, his eyes had acquired the faculty of distinguishing objects in the night, common to the hyena and the wolf

而且，由于长久生活在昏暗的地方，他的眼睛早已变得象鬣狗和狼的眼睛一样，具有能在黑夜里辨别东西的能力。

Any of various similar or related mammals,such as the hyena .

类似狼的动物任何相似的或相关的哺乳动物的一种，如狼狗

Yet, in spite of its awkward, slouching gait, the hyena can run surprisingly quickly

鬣狗的步履笨拙，懒散，然而跑起来速度惊人。

The hyena ’s public image is not aided by its ridiculous appearance

鬣狗滑稽的外表无助于改善它在公众心中的形象。

The savanna is also the home of meat-eaters- the lion, leopard, and hyena- who feed on the grass-eaters.

热带草原也是食肉动物--狮子、豹子和鬣狗的家园，食草动物就是它们的美餐。

A mammal(Proteles cristatus)native to southern and eastern Africa that resembles the hyena ,has gray fur with black stripes,and feeds mainly on termites and insect larvae.

土狼一种生长于非洲南部和东部的哺乳动物(羽毛状土狼土狼属)，形状象鬣狗，长有夹杂黑色条纹的灰色绒毛，主要以白蚁和昆虫的幼虫为食

When we have done that, we have prepared ourselves to kill him, for to kill the Other, to kill a snake, a roach, a pest, a Jew, a scorpion, a black, a centipede, a Palestinian, a hyena , an Iraqi, a wild dog, an Israeli ... it’s O. K

做到了这一点，就等于心理上准备好可以去杀人了，因为杀掉对方，就像杀一条蛇、蟑螂、蚊虫、犹太、蝎子、黑人、蜈蚣、巴勒斯坦人、土狼、伊拉克人、野狗、以色列人……没什么大不了!

The female hyena picks and dumps her male as she sees fit, and has even evolved genitalia that look like a male’s.

雌性土狼随意挑选和抛弃她的男伴，并进化出了看上去和雄性土狼一样的生殖器。

But the face that stilled him did not move, and the hyena did not come back inside.

但是那张让他无法动弹的脸没有动，那只鬣狗并没有再进屋。

The hyena carrying this head and spine was giggling like mad as its clan mate chased it around.

叼着脊柱和头的鬣狗在被它的部族伙伴追逐时，像疯子一样发出“呵呵”声。

Hideous hyena laughter, then a blur of motion.

发出骇人的鬣狗般的笑声，然后是动作模糊的画面。

The hyena ’s whoop vocalization is a series of discrete calls produced in about of sound that can travel distances of more than two miles.

鬣狗“呜呜”叫声是由一轮发音而形成的一系列不连贯的呼唤，可以传播到两英里以外。

He couldn’t see the hyena , but the stench of it was there, the stagnant reek of meat and sweat and piss.

他看不见鬣狗，但是他能嗅到它身上的恶臭，那混杂着肉味、汗味和尿骚的恶臭。

I chose hyena out of the blue, thinking, that’s likely to be African isn’t it?

我索性选了hyena（鬣狗），心里琢磨着，它总该源自非洲吧？

A spotted hyena keeps its distance from an aggressive Cape cobra

一只黑斑鬣犬与一条好斗的好望角眼镜蛇保持距离。

Therefore it is good for the wildebeest to be eaten by the hyena , he explains, because that fosters evolution.

因此，他解释道，角马被鬣狗吃掉是好事，因为这推动了进化。

Which just goes to show how hard it is to get away from Latin and Greek roots since hyena too arrived in English after the Norman invasion.

这恰好可以说明，要想摆脱拉丁语和希腊语的词根有多么困难。

It was not until cubs that hadrecently graduated from the communal den began arriving at this kill site thatwe started to hear hyena voices.

直到一群出窝不久的幼仔陆续到达杀戮现场，我们才听到鬣狗们的叫声。