This kind of tension doesn't make things clear; the rules are not absolute, and not everybody fits into a pigeon hole.

这种紧张的冲突并不能让万事柳暗花明,因为事事无绝对,并不是每个人都能一个萝卜一个坑

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So, you could train a pigeon to peck for food but that's because pecking for food is a very natural response.

你可以训练鸽子啄食,但这只是因为啄食是种自然反应而已。

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The experiment was, he would put--the pigeon was in a cage and he'd let the pigeon get pretty hungry -hungry pigeons are not happy pigeons.

实验过程是,他把鸽子困在笼子里,还不给鸽子喂食,饥饿的鸽子怒火中烧

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When I say "pigeon," I don't really seem to have any particular sense of an onomatopoetic word, but if I use the Latin, pipio, which means "to chirp," all of a sudden I say, "Oh, that's onomatopoetic."

当我说鸽子的时候,这个词并不能，反应它自身的意思，但是如果我用拉丁语说鸽子，也就是咕咕“,这就是拟声了“

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The Germans bring in these falcons and they go out and they munch the pigeons; and so this was another reason for them, just like the Germans, these poor little pigeons who became the sort of sacred bird, I guess a pigeon's a bird.

德国人带了很多隼到法国,用以捕杀信鸽,这是改用热气球的另一个原因,拜德军如此行为所赐,可怜的鸽子成为了圣鸟,我想鸽子是一种鸟吧

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One pigeon was jumping up and down a lot, another one was bobbing its head, and another one was doing kind of a little dance.

它们有的上蹿下跳,有的摇头晃脑,还有的独鸽乱舞

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Skinner developed, in World War II, a pigeon guided missile.

在二战时，斯金纳提出，用鸽子来为导弹导航。

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Then he had a machine that granted each pigeon one piece of corn every fifteen seconds; that's very, frustratingly slow for a hungry pigeon to get one piece every fifteen seconds.

他们设计了一个能保证,每隔15秒给鸽子喂一玉米粒的装置,对饥饿的鸽子来说是杯水车薪,每15秒才只有一粒玉米

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Semi-torture for a pigeon.

在对鸽子的"半酷刑"后

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A behaviorist might admit that a human can do things that a rat or pigeon couldn't but a behaviorist might just say, "Look. Those are just general associative powers " that differ" Or they may even deny it.

行为主义者可能会承认人类能够做到,一些老鼠或鸽子无法做到的事情,但他们或许只会说，“它们只不过是在一般性联想学习能力上,有所差异而已“,甚至他们干脆否认。

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