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)。
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。
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。
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。
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。
I'm even guilty of using this occasionally myself. And yet, it is one of those terms that often makes people cock their head like a dog that heard a human-inaudible screech.
我也会偶尔使用这些术语，然而这些术语往往是人们拍脑袋想出来的。
The only reason to have titanium teeth? Medical reasons, he says, like "if a dog breaks a tooth... it's the same as a crown for a human."
他说，狗嘴里镶钛牙的唯一的理由，只能是因为牙科医学上的原因，“如果狗牙断掉了，也可以像人的牙齿一样，作一个牙冠镶嵌在上边。”
Most people feel very strongly about my abuse of that small dog: it's wrong in itself, regardless of any link my action may have with human interests.
大部分人都会非常反感虐待小狗的行为：这种行为本身就是错误的，不管它跟人类利益有没有任何联系。
After the ceremony, dog and human food was laid on, including a six-foot chocolate fountain, and the dogs' owners made speeches wishing the happy couple good luck for the future.
婚礼过后，一双新人和宾客们开始享用美食，这其中包括了6英尺高的巧克力喷泉，而两只狗狗的主人还分别致辞，祝愿他们未来幸福。
When that happens the command becomes part of the human background babble that the dog listen to all day long.
当这种情况发生的时候，口令就成为狗儿听到人类发出的杂乱声音的一部分。
'I've known the bears to have somewhat friendly behaviour with the dogs, but for a bear to pet like a human would pet a dog is just mind-blowing,' De Meulles said.
德•穆勒斯说：“我以前也了解熊有时会对狗表现出一些友好行为，但一头大熊，像人类喜欢宠物一样对待狗狗，还真是令人耳目一新”。
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
人类唯一为自己挑选亲戚的机会，也许就是能选择一只狗了。
For example, a three-year-old dog is equivalent to 28 in human years; a four-year-old is 32, a five-year-old, 36, a six-year-old, 40 — and so on.
例如，一条狗3岁相当于人的28岁，4岁相当于人的32岁，5岁相当于人的36岁，6岁相当于人的40岁……以此类推。
Here are my five favourite studies on the psychology of human-dog interaction.
关于人类和狗的心理互动，以下是我认为最靠谱的5个研究。
The late postal Pal is displayed there along with several of the dog tags and other tokens given to him by his human buddies over the years.
我们这个邮差伙伴被陈列在博物馆里，同时也陈列了几个邮差狗标志和这些年里其他邮差们给他的各种标识。
Leishmaniasis is spread by the sandfly, and in the dog as well as human has both cutaneous and visceral forms.
利什曼病是由白蛉传播的人犬共患病，疾病影响皮肤和内脏。
Dog lovers have created a competitive event called canine freestyle that brings the bond between human and animal to a new high.
爱狗之人创造的一种称为“犬自由步”的竞技类比赛使人类和动物的关系更加亲密。
Sadly, Turk and his human family have now moved away, but Bennett said Kai has many other dog friends in the neighbourhood.
悲伤的是，塔克和他的主人一家现在搬走了。不过班内特说，凯在这片邻里当中还有许多其他的汪星人小伙伴。
Sadly, Turk and his human family have now moved away, but Bennett said Kai has many other dog friends in the neighbourhood.
悲伤的是，塔克和他的主人一家现在搬走了。不过班内特说，凯在这片邻里当中还有许多其他的汪星人小伙伴。
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