在我们惊叹于它的灵活的背后却有些讽刺:我们都将宠物拟人化——我们在漂亮的牧羊犬,蓝眼睛的暹罗猫,胖肚皮的小猪身上寻找某种精神,甚至是良心,而不是在人群中感受到这些。
But there’s a joke buried in our wonderment: we all anthropomorphize our pets, finding spirit, even conscience, in beautiful collies, in cool, blue-eyed Siamese cats, in potbellied pigs.
童话中的兔子都是拟人化的:彼得兔穿着夹克衫和鞋子,和他的家族一起住在有着人类厨房和人类家具的兔子洞里。
Peter wears a jacket and shoes. Peter and his family live in a rabbit hole that has a human kitchen, human furniture.
希腊神话中虽然残留着自然和兽形的遗迹,但社会属性较高的大神都实现了完全的拟人化。
Even though there are remains of nature and animal in Greek myths, the highly socialized great deities are completely anthropomorphized.
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