每天，杜立德医生都在学习动物的语言。
Every day, Dr. Dolittle learned the languages of the animals.
动物的语言与人类的语言有别。
从那以后，他就能听懂动物的语言了。
Eating the snake had given him power of understanding the language of animals.
我真觉得自己有些异想天开，可我真的有这个想法：我们人类发明一种能听懂任何动物的语言的耳机。
I really feel some whimsical, but I really have this idea: we can understand the invention of a language of any animal headphones.
人类与动物的不同在于前者能够使用语言。
Human beings differ from animals in that the former is capable of using language.
如果没有语言，我们就不可能登上超越所有其他动物、甚至超越大自然的顶峰。
Without language, we could never have embarked on our ascent to unparalleled power over all other animals, and even over nature itself.
语言是动物界中最令人惊讶的行为。
Language is the most astonishing behavior in the animal kingdom.
人是唯一发展出语言的动物。
语言是从根本上把人类与动物区分开的事物。
Language is something that fundamentally distinguishes humans from animals.
吃蛇给了他理解动物语言的能力。
Eating the snake had given him the power of understanding the language of animals.
不论是在动物的历史中何种时候何种环境，语言只可能是一刹那间诞生。
Whatever may have been the moment and the circumstances of its appearance in the scale of animal life, language could only have been born in one fell swoop.
语言的另一个特征是我们所说的“置换性”，这是任何形式的动物交流都不会表现出来的。
Another feature of language that's not displayed by any form of animal communication is what we call "displacement".
例如，英语经常是各种会议的通用语，天文学、儿童心理学和动物学等领域的许多期刊文章都将英语作为一种默认语言。
It is often a lingua franca of conferences, for example, and many journal articles in fields as diverse as astronomy, child psychology and zoology have English as a kind of default language.
每种动物都有自己的语言。
此外，这些含义似乎并不超越其他动物通过非语言交流所传达的信息。
Moreover, the meanings seem to not go beyond what other animals convey with non-verbal communication.
自然界里，在很多动物就有这样的例子。但是只有人类拥有大脑和语言能力，和谎言工具一样。
There are many examples in nature of animals that practise deception, but only human beings have big brains and language skills as lying tools.
虽然在动物王国中，没有我们料想中的语言，姿势（倭黑猩猩和红毛猩猩其实也在用），我们是万物的灵长。
Though nothing in the animal kingdom is using what we think of as language, gestures used by bonobos and orang-utans come close.
语言让我们成为完整的人，其他动物都不具有类似于人类那丰富复杂的词汇和语法。
Our languages are what make us fully human—no other creature has anything like our rich and complex vocabularies and grammars.
该篇文章认为使用这样“贬义”的语言会影响到我们对待动物的方式。
It argues that "derogatory" language about animals can affect the way that they are treated.
我们不同于其他动物的原因之一是我们可以学习语言。
Obviously we're doing something different [from other animals], because we're able to learn language.
当然了，由于不具备语言或精确的符号系统，动物们的识数能力不可能达到人类的程度。
Of course, without language or a precise symbolic system to represent numbers, animal numerical abilities will never reach human levels.
像一些而不是全部的孤独症患者，她靠图片而不是语言思考，她认为动物也一样，这就是为何她感觉自己能辨认动物。
Like some - but not all - autistic people, she thinks purely in pictures rather than language, and so, she believes, do animals, which is why she feels able to identify with them.
但是人类至少可以用口头表达他们的爱情感受；到目前动物们还不能，尽管有类人猿展现了可以学会语言的潜力。
But humans can at least give verbal expression to their loving feelings; so far, animals cannot, although there is the potential for Revelations from language-taught great apes.
柏拉图在他的“斐德罗篇”中，以神话的语言描述了灵魂为何和怎样在人类的层面上或动物的层面上产生。
Plato describes in "Phaedrus," in mythological language, why and how the souls take their birth upon this plane, either as human or animal.
柏拉图在他的“斐德罗篇”中，以神话的语言描述了灵魂为何和怎样在人类的层面上或动物的层面上产生。
Plato describes in “Phaedrus,” in mythological language, why and how the souls take their birth upon this plane, either as human or animal.
我相信动物们都有他们自己的语言。
他还出版了《野生动物研究和保护培训手册》。该手册已被翻译成多种语言，旨在介绍野外工作所需的技能。
He also has published the "Wildlife Field Research and Conservation Training Manual," which is published in a number of different languages to teach people skills for working in the wild.
许多进化论语言学家相信所有的人类语言都来源于单一的、原初的语言。而这种原初的语言则从其他动物的呼噜和噪声中演化出来。
Many evolutionary linguists believe that all human languages have descended from a single, primitive language, which itself evolved from the grunts and noises of the lower animals.
尽管许多动物有它们自己的交流方式，但就深度和多功能性而言，都不足与人类语言相提并论。
Although many animals have their own form of communication, none has the depth or versatility heard in human speech.
尽管许多动物有它们自己的交流方式，但就深度和多功能性而言，都不足与人类语言相提并论。
Although many animals have their own form of communication, none has the depth or versatility heard in human speech.
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