在你问“为什么狗不能比身材不及它一半的动物更坚强”之前，应该思考一下狗在食物链中的位置。

Well, before you start asking your dog why it can't be more Stoic like animals half its size, it's probably worth considering each animal's place in the food chain.

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除了不时听见狗喘气的声音，四下里一片寂静。

The silence was broken only by the snuffles of the dogs.

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她一下子避开了那条狗。

She flinched away from the dog.

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Now, saying "Good dog" is not something your dog has been built, pre-wired, to find pleasurable.

然而，在天生的情况下“,狗狗并不能从“好狗狗“的话语中，获得快乐。

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And, so, you had this rather odd situation where instead of dogs guarding their masters or mistresses, you had the masters and mistresses guarding the dogs against people who would take the dogs and, unfortunately, kill them and eat them.

真是因为如此,产生了一种奇怪的现象,通常情况下是狗来守护主人的,而现在呢,主人必须时时刻刻保护自己的狗,以免被人抓去宰了吃

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