A creature is required who is distinguished in certain ways from other animals.

是一种对之有所求的创造物,他在某些方面与其他动物不同。

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So there's tons of dogs and animals running around in the daytime.

所以在白天，有很多狗和其他动物到处乱跑。

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Other primates do it to some extent and then it's interesting when they do it.

其他灵长类动物也在一定程度上有这种特性,但它们的笑很有意思。

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And if your body is biologically programmed to defend itself gainst famine or starvation which is what humans and animals have faced over all the centuries then you're going to seek out the energy dense food and that's why those foods taste inherently better.

在生物学角度,你的身体本身一直在,抵御饥荒和饥饿,是人和其他动物几世纪来一直面对的问题,所以你就主动寻找高能量的食品,这也是为什么这些食品比较好吃

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Animals that are altruistic even to the point of dying to help another, those genes will, under some circumstances, be preserved over the genes of people who are less caring.

有强烈利它主义的动物,甚至为其他动物牺牲自己，这些基因在某些情况下，就会被保存下来,而那些不关心他人的基因则不会。

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There's a lot of debate over how much is innate and what the character of the built-in mental systems are but there's nobody who doubts nowadays that a considerable amount for humans and for other animals is built-in.

尽管对于先天存在程度,以及内在心理系统所起的作用,还存在着很多的争论,然而如今的人们已经不再怀疑,先天因素在人类以及其他动物身上,所起到的重要作用。

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Once we've made some generalizations about language in this narrow sense, we could then ask, and we will ask, to what extent do other systems such as animal communication systems relate to this narrower definition.

一旦我们在狭义上,得出了某些关于语言的概论,那我们就可以发问,诸如动物交流系统之类的其他系统,会在多大程度上,符合这个狭隘的定义呢

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And we are invited to imagine the fate of, again finding ourselves in the bodies of other creatures and, if you can imagine this, this is because you are imagining what you are as separate from the body that you reside in.

在这里,作者再次邀请我们去想象,我们自己被困在其他动物身体里的场景,如果你能想象如此场景,那是因为你将自己当做了,与所依肉体相分离的心理实体

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