I can't understand modern art, to me it look like rubbish.
我不能理解现代艺术,对于我来说,那些东西简直就是垃圾。
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.
沥青坑里积存了水,大象那样的大动物冒险到似乎坚固的水面上去饮水,立即掉进了沥青坑。