21世纪大学英语应用型综合教程2U2译文-课件.pptVIP

Unit 2: Text B problem — we taught the dog to sit up and beg. Our anthropomorphic desires are so demanding that they have to be satisfied, even at the expense of the animals’ efficiency. 7. If we now split up the responses to these favourite animals, separating them into age groups, some remarkably consistent trends emerge: Unit 2: Text B 7-2. For certain of the animals there is a steady decrease in preference with the increasing age of the children. For others there is a steady rise. The unexpected discovery here is that these trends show an obvious relationship with one particular feature of the preferred animals, namely their body size. The younger children prefer the bigger animals and the older children prefer the smaller ones. 7. 如果我们把儿童对动物的喜爱按年龄分组，就会呈现出某些明显的倾向：随着年龄的增长，儿童对某些动物的偏爱会逐渐减弱，而对另一些动物的偏爱则会逐渐增强。有关这些倾向的一个意外发现是：儿童对动物的喜爱明显与动物的某一特征有关，这一特征就是它们体型的大小。年幼的儿童喜欢个头较大的动物，而年龄较大的儿童则喜欢较小的动物 Unit 2: Text B 8. We can sum up the findings so far by stating two principles. The first law of animal appeal states that “The popularity of an animal is directly related with the number of anthropomorphic features it possesses.” The second law of animal appeal states that “The age of a child is conversely related with the size of the animal it most prefers.” Unit 2: Text B 9. How can we explain the second law? The simplest explanation is that the smaller children are viewing the animals as parent-substitutes and the older children are looking upon them as child-substitutes. （ 819 words） 8. 我们可以拟定出两条原理来总结我们现在的发现。动物讨人喜欢的第一条原理是“动物的受欢迎程度与它的类人形特征成正比”。第二：条原理是“儿童的年龄与他最喜欢的动物的大小成反比”。 9. 我们如何解释第二条原理呢?最简单的解释就是：年幼的儿童把动物看成是父母亲的替代