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时间：2018-12-02 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(十二)月
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Sticks and stones may break some bones…unless you're a young female chimp 1. In that case, you're more likely to cradle your stick like a dollie. That finding appears in the journal Current Biology.
If you have kids, you've no doubt noticed that, generally speaking, girls like to play with dolls while boys gravitate toward swords and trains. Study after study has shown this to be true. But is it instinct? Parental 2 influence? Or the result of some sort of preschool peer-pressure? One way to find out is to look to the animal kingdom, where there are no gender-specific playthings. Earlier studies of monkeys in captivity 3 have shown that, given a choice, females do prefer dolls whereas males will reach for a truck. But what about how juvenile 4 animals play in the wild?
Scientists studying chimps 5 in a national park in Uganda for 14 years have found that all the youngsters like to play with sticks. They poke 6 them into holes and just carry them around. But the female chimps also seem to act out nurturing 7 them, holding the sticks close and bringing them into their nests at naptime. Males prefer to use the sticks to whack 8 each other. Sound familiar?
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- In fact,the color of gorilla and chimp are light-color.其实大猩猩和黑猩猩的肤色是较为浅的。
- The chimp is the champ.猩猩是冠军。
- He encourages parental involvement in the running of school.他鼓励学生家长参与学校的管理。
- Children always revolt against parental disciplines.孩子们总是反抗父母的管束。
- A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
- He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。
- For a grown man he acted in a very juvenile manner.身为成年人，他的行为举止显得十分幼稚。
- Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.青少年犯罪正在以惊人的速度增长。
- Chimps are too scarce, and too nearly human, to be routinely slaughtered for spare parts. 黑猩猩又太少，也太接近于人类，不可以作为人器官备用件说杀就杀。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
- And as nonprimates, they provoke fewer ethical and safety-related concerns than chimps or baboons. 而且作为非灵长类，就不会产生像用黑猩猩或狒狒那样的伦理和安全方面的顾虑。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
- We never thought she would poke her nose into this.想不到她会插上一手。
- Don't poke fun at me.别拿我凑趣儿。