You have two cows, x and y. You solve for cow x in terms of cow y. You find out that cow x makes three times as much milk as cow y minus two gallons.
You have two cows. Note that each cow when added or multiplied to the other, obeys the laws of Commutativity, Associativity, Distributivity, Identity, and Inverses. You have just proven that both cows are members of a field. Both cows look at you, unamused.
You have two cows. Both of them are continuously milk-able and meat-able. (Differentiation and Integration)
You have [1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ...] cows.
You have 2 + 0i cows.
You have two cows. You leave the proof of this as an exercise to the reader.