I can't understand modern art, to me it look like rubbish.
我不能理解現代藝術,對于我來說,那些東西簡直就是垃圾。
Apparently what happened was that water collected on these tar pits, and the bigger animals like the elephants ventured out on to the apparently firm surface to drink, and were promptly bogged in the tar.
瀝青坑里積存了水,大象那樣的大動物冒險到似乎堅固的水面上去飲水,立即掉進了瀝青坑。