时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语语言学习


英语课
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
There are enormous implications in a report this week from a team of Hungarian scientists who say that dogs can understand words, not just the tone in which we may tell them, oh, good boy, good little girl. Scientists at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest wrote in the Science journal that the 13 family dogs they studied used the same parts of their brain as humans to process language. They probably understand words.
Now, this is just not a cute little pet story. It might lead to rethinking the whole relationship we have with the dogs in our lives. It means we should no longer speak doggie baby talk, like otay snookie-woofums time for a walkie-poo. Instead, people will have to tell their dogs, good morning. In a moment, I'll take you outside to evacuate 1 your bowels 2 and bladder. In the meantime, I've left food with beef, rice and shards 3 of carrots in your bowl that contains about 800 calories, zinc 4, sulfate, vitamin E supplement, sodium 5 selenite and 1.5 crude fiber 6. I've put The Times op-ed page next to your bowl. I think you'll love Frank Bruni, but there's a column next to it you might want to poop on.
This research means we should probably speak in soft tones when talking near our dogs about delicate topics like spaying and neutering. Perhaps it's just wisest to whisper, you know, I think we have to take Olly in for that thing the vet 7 does, you know. This finding that dogs understand words means that if you leave Morning Edition on for your dog while you go off to work, by the time you come home, your dog will be better informed than you. Imagine living with a smart-aleck dog who can correct you about the fine points of the Trans-Pacific Partnership 8 trade deal or gets the answers to the weekend Sunday puzzle before you do.
Instead of leaving on music - light jazz or Vivaldi - as company for your dog when you go out at night, your dog might prefer to listen to an audiobook of Noam Chomsky reading "Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order." And if dogs understand language, how can we look into their soft, limpid 9 eyes and woolly snouts to confide 10 our deepest anxieties and darkest secrets if we know our dogs take in each and every word and just think I'd rather scratch myself than hear all this again?
(SOUNDBITE OF THE SINGING DOGS & DON CHARLES' "HOT DOG ROCK AND ROLL")
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v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵!
  • They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
n.肠,内脏,内部;肠( bowel的名词复数 );内部,最深处
  • Salts is a medicine that causes movements of the bowels. 泻盐是一种促使肠子运动的药物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The cabins are in the bowels of the ship. 舱房设在船腹内。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.(玻璃、金属或其他硬物的)尖利的碎片( shard的名词复数 )
  • Eyewitnesses spoke of rocks and shards of glass flying in the air. 目击者称空中石块和玻璃碎片四溅。 来自辞典例句
  • Ward, Josh Billings, and a host of others have survived only in scattered shards of humour. 沃德、比林斯和许多别的作家能够留传下来的只是些幽默的残章断简。 来自辞典例句
n.锌;vt.在...上镀锌
  • Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc.黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。
  • Zinc is used to protect other metals from corrosion.锌被用来保护其他金属不受腐蚀。
n.(化)钠
  • Out over the town the sodium lights were lit.在外面,全城的钠光灯都亮了。
  • Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine.食盐是钠和氯的复合物。
n.纤维,纤维质
  • The basic structural unit of yarn is the fiber.纤维是纱的基本结构单元。
  • The material must be free of fiber clumps.这种材料必须无纤维块。
n.兽医,退役军人;vt.检查
  • I took my dog to the vet.我把狗带到兽医诊所看病。
  • Someone should vet this report before it goes out.这篇报道发表之前应该有人对它进行详查。
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
adj.清澈的,透明的
  • He has a pair of limpid blue eyes.他有一双清澈的蓝眼睛。
  • The sky was a limpid blue,as if swept clean of everything.碧空如洗。
v.向某人吐露秘密
  • I would never readily confide in anybody.我从不轻易向人吐露秘密。
  • He is going to confide the secrets of his heart to us.他将向我们吐露他心里的秘密。
学英语单词
abstracticisms
aga-boom
Androsace henryi
Ark of the Covenant
aster trinervis roxb.
barmy
batters down
Baxian Changshou Wan
beef-steak
bibliography
Camporrobles
caprinaldehyde
centipede venom
centistock
co morbid
combined lathe
committees
conditional substitution
consumer thermal substation
cyclopoid larva
dabelitine
deep sleep
desilks
device identifier
dischargeable dye
disjoint policy
double-division stem
drawn off
dropout research
earned value analysis
ejection altitude
electron donor acceptor complex
embusy
ethnonymy
eugenia oil
evaporation-type steam jet refrigeration machine
external integument
fee estate
Feni District
first in first out buffer memory
forcipomyia (lasiohelea) propoia
fuel pump rocker arm link
funiculi separans
geglotry
germinative gland
gimp nail
gravitational radiation
grunwalds
hachure
helper virus
Hemibasidiomycetes
high-speed cutting nozzle
Hohenhausen
hydrocarbon migration
interchromatin granule
International Ballet Competitions
JLPT
joint distribution
Jyllinge
keep at bay
Krommenie
lemon sex
maglie
mobile parity
mold base line
multi-purpose communications and signaling
nonuplet
normalized language
object-oriented analysis (ooa)
orangeyellow
overload protective relay
platformcar
Polygonum subscaposum
posologic
pressure difference hydrophone
pronymph
propeller camber ratio
proteoysis
provolution
pyroligneous acids
raffarin
rafter foot
rail bearing
range angle
reelectrolysis
rheumatic neuritis
Rödental
Saussurea kungii
scarpellino
Sceletium
Schiller's disease
scrawniness
selenium copper
slow start
stood to my guns
supra-national authority
untrainee
uplifted coast
upsizing
walnut caterpillar
withhold the truth
wool quality