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“Through their DNA, the animals are telling their history themselves,” co-author Samantha Brooks, an equine researcher at the University of Florida, says in a statement.

“通过它们的DNA，这些动物在亲自讲述自己的历史，”论文合著者、佛罗里达大学马科动物研究员萨曼莎·布鲁克斯在一份声明中说。

Researchers say these findings could help put donkeys in the spotlight.

研究人员表示，这些发现可能有助于让驴成为人们关注的焦点。

Sir John Reith said that it would end “isolation of the spirit” and rejoiced: “It does not matter how many thousands may be listening, there is always enough for others...the genius and the fool, the wealthy and the poor listen simultaneously.”

约翰·里思爵士说，它将终结“精神上的孤立”，并欣喜地表示：“无论有成千上万的人在收听，总还有足够的空间留给其他人……天才与傻瓜、富人与穷人都在同时收听。”

A woman says there have been fewer street fights since the arrival of the wireless but also less stopping and “talking on the brush handle”.

一位女士说，自从有了无线电，街头打架少了，但人们停下来“拄着扫帚柄聊天”的情况也少了。

Some will say the audiobook boom revives it, though I suppose you can then worry about the decline of reading.

有些人会说有声书的繁荣让它复兴了，不过我想那样一来你又会担心阅读的衰落了。

This deficit is a testament to the effectiveness of modern firefighting, said Kelly Martin, a past president of the International Association of Wildland Fire.

国际荒地火灾协会前主席凯莉·马丁说，这一缺口证明了现代消防的有效性。

Say your boss picks holes in your sales report, and you come away feeling like this means she thinks you’re a [poor] member of staff.

比如说，老板挑出了你销售报告中的毛病，而你事后觉得这意味着她认为你是个差劲的员工。

When a faculty or department grows from, say, five to 20 members within three or four years, (49) and when the new staff are predominantly young men and women fresh from postgraduate study, they largely define the norms of academic life in that faculty.

当一个学院或系在三四年内从比如说5名成员增加到20名，(49) 并且新进员工主要是刚完成研究生学业的年轻男女时，他们在很大程度上决定了该学院学术生活的规范。

And the stock market reacts positively when companies tie CEO pay to, say, stock prices, a sign that those practices build up corporate value not just for the CEO.

而且，当公司把首席执行官的薪酬与（比如说）股价挂钩时，股市会作出积极反应，这表明这些做法所提升的公司价值不仅仅惠及首席执行官。

Carnegie would be right if arguments were fights, which is how we often think of them. Like physical fights, verbal fights can leave both sides bloodied. Even when you win, you end up no better off. Your prospects would be almost as dismal if arguments were even just competitions — like, say, tennis games. Pairs of opponents hit the ball back and forth until one winner emerges from all who entered. Everybody else loses. This kind of thinking is why so many people try to avoid arguments, especially about politics and religion.

如果争论就是争斗——我们常常这样看待争论——那么卡耐基就是对的。和肢体冲突一样，口头争斗也会让双方都头破血流。即使你赢了，最终也不会更好。即便争论只是竞赛——比如说网球比赛——你的前景也几乎同样黯淡。对手们两两对阵，来回击球，直到所有参赛者中产生一个胜者。其他人都是输家。正是这种想法让那么多人尽量避免争论，尤其是关于政治和宗教的争论。

They should start by discarding California’s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smartphone — a vast storehouse of digital information — is similar to, say, going through a suspect’s purse.

他们首先应该摒弃加州站不住脚的论点，即查看智能手机——一个庞大的数字信息库——的内容，类似于翻查嫌疑人的钱包。

When he feels down — say, after giving a bad lecture — he grants himself permission to be human.

当他情绪低落时——比如说，在一次讲课效果不好之后——他会允许自己像普通人一样犯错。

“Nature gave us lips to conceal our teeth,” ran one popular Victorian saying, alluding to the fact that before the birth of proper dentistry, mouths were often in a shocking state of hygiene.

维多利亚时代流行的一句俗语说：“大自然给了我们嘴唇来遮住牙齿。”这暗指在正规牙科诞生之前，人们口腔的卫生状况往往糟糕得惊人。

You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.

俗话说，品位是买不来的，这些暴发户企业家也无法为他们的奖项买来诺贝尔奖那样的声望。

An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted — the trouble is, no one knows which half.

有句老话说，所有广告预算中有一半被浪费了——问题是，没人知道是哪一半。

When you take things personally, you’re interpreting these situations as saying something significant and negative about you as a person.

当你把事情往自己身上揽时，你就是在把这些情形解读为对你这个人作出了某种重大而负面的评价。

When you find yourself taking a situation personally, try to think of other interpretations that are less focused on you — especially in the sense of saying anything deep or [fundamental] about you.

当你发现自己把某种情形往自己身上揽时，试着想想其他不那么以你为中心的解释——尤其是那些不涉及对你作出任何深层或根本性评价的解释。

A young man can [decide on] a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to [arrange] the marriage negotiations, or the young man’s parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

年轻男子可以自己选定一位合适的配偶，然后请父母安排婚事商谈；也可能由男方父母来选择配偶，孩子在选择中几乎没有发言权。

Having said that, I do feel that whatever artifacts find their way to public museums should, in fact, be sanctioned as having been obtained on loan, legally purchased, or obtained by treaty.

话虽如此，我确实认为，任何进入公共博物馆的文物，实际上都应当被认定是通过借展、合法购买或依据条约获得的。

“Elephants never forget” — or so they say — and that piece of folklore seems to have some foundation.

“大象从不忘事”——人们是这么说的——而这句民间说法似乎有一定的依据。

That said, there is a way in which grade forgiveness satisfies colleges’ own needs as well.

话虽如此，成绩豁免在某种程度上也满足了大学自身的需要。

This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

这就是著名的引用指数，即一篇论文在其他科学文献中被引用的次数，其假设是重要论文被引用的次数会多于无足轻重的论文。

men have the final say.

男性拥有最终决定权。

For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least.

在很大程度上，反响至少可以说是正面的。