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Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.

-- Steve Bluestone

I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.

-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.

-- Jean Cocteau

... I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal² sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

-- Colette

What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys?

-- Douglas Coupland

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.

-- English Proverb

I think we are drawn³ to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

-- George Bird Evans

When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap⁴ buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover⁵, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.

-- John Frazee

When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.

-- Jack⁶ Handey, Deep Thoughts

Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.

-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long

Love to eat them mousies
Mousie's what I love to eat.
Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny feet.

-- B. Kliban

What kills a skunk⁷ is the publicity⁸ it gives itself.

-- Abraham Lincoln

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then."

-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, 1994

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

-- Groucho Marx

The trouble with a kitten is
THAT
Eventually it becomes a
CAT.

-- Ogden Nash

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.

-- Nigerian Proverb

A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.

-- Polish proverb

A kitten is chiefly remarkable⁹ for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

-- Agnes Repplier

There are two means of refuge from the misery¹⁰ of life - music and cats.

-- Albert Schweitzer

Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.

-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated¹¹ television show

I loathe¹² people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts¹³ to bite people themselves.

-- August Strindberg

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

-- Lily Tomlin

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

-- Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.

-- Mark Twain

The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.

-- Mark Twain

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

-- John Webster

The English country gentleman galloping¹⁴ after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

-- Oscar Wilde

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

-- Steven Wright

Imagine if birds were tickled¹⁵ by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically¹⁶!

-- Steven Wright

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1 anonymous
adj.無名的；匿名的；無特色的
參考例句：
Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行為。 The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公開。

2 brutal
adj.殘忍的，野蠻的，不講理的
參考例句：
She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面對冷酷的現實。 They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他們表面上溫文有禮，骨子里卻是野蠻殘忍。

3 drawn
v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，緊張的
參考例句：
All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。 Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的風景所吸引。

4 strap
n.皮帶，帶子；v.用帶扣住，束牢；用繃帶包扎
參考例句：
She held onto a strap to steady herself.她抓住拉手吊帶以便站穩。 The nurse will strap up your wound.護士會綁扎你的傷口。

5 hover
vi.翱翔，盤旋；徘徊；彷徨，猶豫
參考例句：
You don't hover round the table.你不要圍著桌子走來走去。 A plane is hover on our house.有一架飛機在我們的房子上盤旋。

6 jack
n.插座，千斤頂，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛舉；n.（Jake）杰克
參考例句：
I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找尋頭戴式耳機插孔。 He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤頂把車頂起來換下癟輪胎。

7 skunk
n.臭鼬，黃鼠狼；v.使慘敗，使得零分；爛醉如泥
參考例句：
That was a rotten thing to do, you skunk!那種事做得太缺德了，你這卑鄙的家伙！ The skunk gives off an unpleasant smell when attacked.受到攻擊時臭鼬會發出一種難聞的氣味。

8 publicity
n.眾所周知，聞名；宣傳，廣告
參考例句：
The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.這位歌星的婚事引起了公眾的關注。 He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理會這件事，只當它是一種宣傳手法。

9 remarkable
adj.顯著的，異常的，非凡的，值得注意的
參考例句：
She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在寫作技巧方面有了長足進步。 These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.這些汽車因發動機沒有噪音而不同凡響。

10 misery
n.痛苦，苦惱，苦難；悲慘的境遇，貧苦
參考例句：
Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商業不景氣常使工薪階層受苦。 He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我從苦海里救了出來。

11 animated
adj.生氣勃勃的，活躍的，愉快的
參考例句：
His observations gave rise to an animated and lively discussion.他的言論引起了一場氣氛熱烈而活躍的討論。 We had an animated discussion over current events last evening.昨天晚上我們熱烈地討論時事。

12 loathe
v.厭惡，嫌惡
參考例句：
I loathe the smell of burning rubber.我厭惡燃著的橡膠散發的氣味。 You loathe the smell of greasy food when you are seasick.當你暈船時，你會厭惡油膩的氣味。

13 guts
v.狼吞虎咽，貪婪地吃，飛碟游戲（比賽雙方每組5人，相距15碼，互相擲接飛碟）；毀壞（建筑物等）的內部( gut的第三人稱單數 )；取出…的內臟n.勇氣( gut的名詞復數 )；內臟；消化道的下段；腸
參考例句：
I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 魚若已收拾干凈，我只需燒一下即可。 Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉沒有勇氣離開她媽媽。來自《簡明英漢詞典》

14 galloping
adj. 飛馳的, 急性的動詞gallop的現在分詞形式
參考例句：
The horse started galloping the moment I gave it a good dig. 我猛戳了馬一下，它就奔馳起來了。 Japan is galloping ahead in the race to develop new technology. 日本在發展新技術的競爭中進展迅速，日新月異。

15 tickled
（使）發癢( tickle的過去式和過去分詞 )；（使）愉快，逗樂
參考例句：
We were tickled pink to see our friends on television. 在電視中看到我們的一些朋友，我們高興極了。 I tickled the baby's feet and made her laugh. 我胳肢孩子的腳，使她發笑。

16 hysterically
ad. 歇斯底里地
參考例句：
The children giggled hysterically. 孩子們歇斯底里地傻笑。 She sobbed hysterically, and her thin body was shaken. 她歇斯底里地抽泣著，她瘦弱的身體哭得直顫抖。

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