Robots might be getting better at performing tasks like carrying heavy equipment and tracking store inventory, but that doesn't mean they will be replacing humans at work anytime soon.

机器人可能更擅于处理类似搬重设备和追踪库存情况等等，但并不意味着人类工作很快会被取代。

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Constance Scharff, who works on birdsong at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, says the work is important because it is often claimed that humans are the only species that USES grammar.

德国柏林自由大学研究鸟类歌唱的康斯坦斯·沙夫(Constance Scharff)说，这项研究工作很重要，因为大家常说人类是唯一能使用语法规则的物种。

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Researchers at the University of Milan have made the system work in mice in the laboratory and are now looking to carry out trials in humans next year.

米兰大学的研究者们已经在实验室的老鼠身上让这一系统工作，并准备下一年进行人体身上的实验。

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So this is another kind of engineering, an engineering not to look more closely at how humans work but an engineering to improve their function when it's failing.

这便是另一种工程技术,它并不研究人体运作原理,而是强化某部位的功能,如果这个部位失效了的话

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Since past work has shown that humans will forgo money just for the opportunity to look at sexy pictures, the team suspected that the participants might similarly favor talking about themselves over earning some cash.

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