纪录片《狗狗秘闻》 32狗和人类共同拥有的

Experiments have proved what dog owners have always suspected.

实验证明了狗狗主人一直猜想的那样

After thousands of years living together,

经过几百年人类和狗狗的共同生活

dogs are attuned¹ to us like no other animal.

狗狗对人类的适应性是其他动物比不了的

New research has taken our understanding of how dogs evolved

新的研究让我们理解了狗是如何进化

To a whole new level and getting

到达一个新的高度的

us closer to exactly what it means to be tame.

让我们明白了什么叫驯服

Now dogs could be about

现在狗狗可能送给我们的

to provide us with the greatest gift of all.

最好的礼物

When it comes to combating human disease,

就是当我们人类与疾病搏斗时

dogs could hold many of the answers.

狗狗可能为我们提供很多线索

They're going to help us

它们可以帮助我们

tackle some of the most dangerous diseases

研究一些现代社会中的重大疾病

of our time that kill millions of people every year.

这些疾病每年让数百万的人失去生命

Dr. Elinor Karlsson, a geneticist

埃莉诺·卡森教授是

at the Brode Institute, harvard, is on the hunt

哈佛布洛德研究所的遗传学家　正在探索

for gene² mutations that could throw light on human diseases.

可能引起人类疾病的基因突变

I think there's hundreds of

我认为有数百种疾病

diseases that are in common between dogs and humans.

是狗狗和人类共有的

There's diabetes⁴,

比如糖尿病

there's various cardiac diseases, there's epilepsy,

比如各种心脏病　还有癫痫

there's a lot of different cancers - bone cancers,

还有很多不同的癌症　骨癌

breast cancers, brain tumours⁵.

乳腺癌　脑瘤等

The narrow gene pool within a dog breed

一个品种的狗之间的基因的差异很小

makes it far easier to pinpoint⁶ genetic³ mutations than in humans.

使之相比人类更易找到基因突变位置

1 attuned   

v.使协调( attune的过去式和过去分词 )；调音

参考例句：

• She wasn't yet attuned to her baby's needs. 她还没有熟悉她宝宝的需要。
• Women attuned to sensitive men found Vincent Lord attractive. 偏爱敏感男子的女人，觉得文森特·洛德具有魅力。 来自辞典例句

2 gene   

n.遗传因子，基因

参考例句：

• A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
• The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。

3 genetic   

adj.遗传的，遗传学的

参考例句：

• It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
• Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。

4 diabetes   

n.糖尿病

参考例句：

• In case of diabetes, physicians advise against the use of sugar.对于糖尿病患者，医生告诫他们不要吃糖。
• Diabetes is caused by a fault in the insulin production of the body.糖尿病是由体內胰岛素分泌失调引起的。

5 tumours   

肿瘤( tumour的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Blood vessels develop abnormally in cancer tumours. 在癌肿瘤中血管出现不正常。
• This apparatus scans patients' brains for tumours. 这台仪器扫描检查病人的脑瘤。

6 pinpoint   

vt.准确地确定；用针标出…的精确位置

参考例句：

• It is difficult to pinpoint when water problems of the modern age began.很难准确地指出，现代用水的问题是什么时候出现的。
• I could pinpoint his precise location on a map.我能在地图上指明他的准确位置。