时差N小时 如何训练你的狗狗(上)

Point at a ball and a dog will look at the ball, whereas a cat will probably look at your hand.

当你用手指着球，狗会注视着球,而猫则可能会盯着你的手看个不停。

Dogs seem to have a ready understanding of how human beings direct attention by pointing,

汪星人似乎已通过方向很好理解人类做出的指示,

and can follow our gestures almost as if they thought the same way we do.

并且可以跟随我们的手势好像它们和我们一样。

Of course, dogs probably aren't born knowing anything about people.

当然,狗狗出生时可能并不了解任何关于人类的事情。

We just carefully train them to look, fetch,and so on, right? Or do we?

我们只是小心谨慎的训练他们观察,获取等等对吗?还是我们?

A comparative psychologist at the Max Plank¹ Institute in Germany,Michael Tomasello,

德国马克斯普朗克研究所的比较心理学家迈克尔托马塞洛

ran a series of tests on dogs which they find which sealed container had yummy dog food in it.

对这种动物进行了一系列的实验观察它们能否找到密闭容器中的美味狗粮。

The only hint they got was from a human being who looked or pointed² at the right container.

唯一的暗示是一名正观察或指向正确容器的人类。

This wasn't hard for dogs at all.

这对狗而言根本不算难题。

1 plank   

n.板条，木板，政策要点，政纲条目

参考例句：

• The plank was set against the wall.木板靠着墙壁。
• They intend to win the next election on the plank of developing trade.他们想以发展贸易的纲领来赢得下次选举。

2 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。