A dog or a cat can teach us a lot about human nature; they are a lot more like us than some might think.
一只狗或一只猫能教给我们许多关于人类的本性的东西。它们比某些人想象的更像人类。
A new study suggests that human preferences have dramatically altered the structure and position of the brain in certain dog breeds, potentially modifying their sense of smell and behavior as well.
一个新的研究表明，人类的偏好已经大大改变了结构和品种的狗的立场某些脑，有可能改变他们的行为和嗅觉的表现不错。
If a human year really were equivalent to seven dog years, then people would reach reproductive age by seven, and some would live past 150.
如果狗活一年相当于人活七年，那么人七岁就该进入生育年龄，而一些人甚至有可能会活过150岁。
The equivalent of a blanket in the human experiment was a ball held in the mouth of a dog which was being observed (dogs often use their mouths to manipulate things).
人类实验中的毛毯的等效物是狗嘴中叼的球，旁观者可以看得见(犬类往往用嘴来操纵物品)。
This intensely close relationship between human and dog understandably creates a taboo on eating dogs, much as there is a taboo on eating fellow humans.
正是狗和人类亲密的关系，使得吃狗肉成为人类的禁忌，就像我们不会去食人一样，很容易理解。
I do not think of you as a "Dog on two feet" - I know what you are.You are human, in all of your quirkiness, and I love you still.
我不会把你们当做“两条腿的犬”，因为我知道你们是人类，尽管你们古怪诡诈，我依然爱你们。
I do not think of you as a "Dog on two feet" - I know what you are. You are human, in all of your quirkiness, and I love you still.
我不会把你们当做“两条腿的犬”，因为我知道你们是人类，尽管你们古怪诡诈，我依然爱你们。
The hut stands at the foot of a near vertical wall of rock in an icy fjord in the high Arctic, a week away by dog sled from the nearest human settlement.
小屋坐落在高纬度北极地区峡湾边一座几乎是垂直的山岩下，从最近的有人居住的地方到此地，狗拉的雪橇要走一个星期。
More importantly, the pig-equals-dog claim ignores the glaringly obvious issue of relationships. The human relationship with dogs is unique.
更重要的是，将吃猪肉等同于吃狗肉的观点忽略了人类与狗之间明摆着的特殊关系。
Dog owners are said to resemble their pets - and perhaps with good reason. It seems dogs naturally match human gestures in a phenomenon known as automatic imitation.
据说狗主人与他们的宠物狗看起来很相似——也许这种相似具有非常充分的理由，因为一种名叫自发性模仿的现象告诉我们，模仿人类的姿势似乎是犬类的天性。
The health benefits would appear to be equally compelling, since the meat found in dog food generally consists of that deemed unfit for human consumption.
同样的，狗吃素的健康裨益也是很大的，因为狗粮中的肉通常含有有害人类健康的成分。
If a dog is a year old, that is the equivalent of 15 in human years (not seven as we always thought).
如果狗是1岁，相当于人的15岁(而不是我们平时知道的7岁)。
This new proof-of-principle experiment should open the door for transgenic dog models of human disease, says team member CheMyong Ko of the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
这种新型的原理证明实验应该有助于创造患有人类疾病的转基因狗模型，该小组成员CheMyongKo说，CheMyong Ko所在的大学是列克星敦市的肯他基大学。
Chasing after his dog, the boy tripped over a log and fell smack dab into what some call "the Rosetta stone of human evolution."
追逐着这条狗，男孩被一块木头绊倒摔倒跌进了所谓的“人类进化的罗塞塔石碑。”
In fact, Dowling says, a dog can have up to 225 million olfactory receptors in their nose — the part of their brain devoted to scent is 40 times greater than that of a human.
事实上，据道林介绍，狗鼻子里的嗅觉感受器多达2.25亿个——狗大脑中控制嗅觉的区域比人类的要大40多倍。
21-year - old in dog age is equivalent to 120 years old in human.
一只狗21岁相当于人120岁。
Over time, as they experience the world, the toddlers refine their abilities and focus on what's really relevant, say, human faces rather than monkey or dog mugs.
随着时间流逝，对世界的感知，这些孩子们开始优化自己的能力，开始集中于真正相关的事情上，比如人脸，而不是猴子或者狗的脸。
His team have tried to find such behavior in dogs — like whether a dog can learn a dog-human ball game by watching — but found none.
他的团队已经尝试在犬类中寻找类似的行为——例如狗能否通过观察学会和人一起玩球——但没有发现。
"And I feel fairly confident that it's the oldest direct evidence of human consumption of dog in the world," notes Belknap.
“而且我非常相信这是世界上人吃狗最远古的直接证据，”贝尔科那普说。
Many believe that eating dog helps keep the human body warm in winter.
很多人认为在冬季食用狗肉有助于保暖。
Next, slowly dropping the words one by one, she said that it was there that she had seen, with her very own eyes, a dog devouring a human hand.
接着她一字一顿地慢慢说道，她在那儿亲眼看到了尸体，一只狗吞噬了一只人手。
He concluded that the average dog had roughly the same cognitive abilities as a 2-year-old human, a finding that is now commonly cited among pet owners.
他的结论是：一般狗的认知能力大致相当于一个2岁孩童，这个发现现在被宠物主人普遍引用。
He concluded that the average dog had roughly the same cognitive abilities as a 2-year-old human, a finding that is now commonly cited among pet owners.
他的结论是：一般狗的认知能力大致相当于一个2岁孩童，这个发现现在被宠物主人普遍引用。
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