Instead, what they do is they bounce all around doing different things and gradually get better and better at it.

相反，它们来回乱窜，做各种尝试,然后逐渐对于从迷笼中逃脱变得熟练。

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Or sometimes the Romans liked to take a big theater and fill the central part of the theater, the cavea, with water and then stage naval battles and that kind of thing.

有时候罗马人也喜欢利用大剧院,在大剧院的中心和兽笼，注满水，上演大海战之类的。

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The lever gets them out of the box, but after more and more trials they stopped scratching at the bars, pushing at the ceiling and so on.

杠杆让它们逃出迷笼，但在经历多次尝试之后,它们不再抓栏杆，不再推顶棚。

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So, he would put a cat in a puzzle box.

他将小猫放进一个谜笼中。

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And the trick to a puzzle box is there's a simple way to get out but you have to kind of pull on something, some special lever, to make it pop open.

这个谜笼的设计是这样的,只要小猫拉动一个东西,它就能够逃出去，拉动一个特殊的杠杆，迷笼就会打开。

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