Long before Bonsai Kittens and the tourist guy, hoaxsters have been wreaking havoc on the gullible to amuse themselves and maybe gain a little notoriety.

早在盆景猫咪和灾难旅行者之前，就有恶搞的人拿“蹂躏”那些轻信的人来作为消遣，并因此臭名昭著。下面是一些网络时代甚至几个世纪之前的恶作剧。

youdao

That is why kittens raised so that they see only vertical lines have brains that look different from those raised in an environment with purely horizontal ones.

这就是为什么在只有垂直线的环境中长大的小猫和的大脑和那些生活在水平线环境中的猫的大脑有所不同。

youdao

There have been many attempts, but they don't evoke anywhere near the same responses as puppies, kittens or even hamsters. They are toys, not companions.

出现过许多这样的尝试，不过，它们都没有带来任何接近于对小狗小猫甚或是仓鼠的同样反应，它们只是玩具，不是伙伴。

youdao

Her silver heels are like knives, her working costume is tauter than a second skin, and, when she straddles the Pod, as if planning to have kittens with it, the only one not to notice is poor old Batman.

NEWYORKER: Batman��s Bane

By the end of my visit I would have been happy to see photographs of kittens or even some grandiloquent paintings by Julian Schnabel, anything not so proud of being self-referential and small time.

WSJ: Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 | Snapshot of a Movement | By Richard B. Woodward