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"The cat does not offer services," William Burroughs wrote. "The cat offers itself." But it does so with unapologetic contradict
"The cat does not offer services," William Burroughs wrote. "The cat offers itself." But it does so with unapologetic contradict
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2019-08-08
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"The cat does not offer services," William Burroughs wrote. "The cat offers itself." But it does so with unapologetic contradictioa Greet a cat enthusiastically and it might respond with nothing more than a few unhurried blinks. Later, as you’re trying to work, it will occupy your lap, keyboard, and attention, making noises all the while. A cat will mew at the food bowl in the morning and set off on a multiple-day trek in the afternoon. 【F1】
"Are cats domesticated?" is one of the most frequently Googled questions about the animals, based on the search engine’s autocomplete suggestions.
It’s a question that scientists have been asking, too. The latest answer, based on insights from recent archeological discoveries and genome-sequencing studies, is that cats are semi-domesticated. 【F2】
Whether this affiliation began five or ten millions of years ago, the evidence suggests that cats have not been part of our domestic domain for nearly as long as dogs, which have been our companions for perhaps forty thousand years.
At first, the cat was yet another opportunistic creature that evolved to take advantage of civilization. It was essentially a larger version of the mice it caught. Somewhere along the line, people shifted from tolerating cats to welcoming them, providing extra food and a warm place to sleep. Why? 【F3】
Perhaps it is because of the cat’s innate predisposition to tameness and its inherent pet-charm—what the Japanese would call kawaii.
Not all researchers agree. "I don’t think it makes sense to talk about animals as semi- or fully domesticated," Greger Larson, an expert on domestication, said. "Any threshold you try to define will necessarily be arbitrary." Larson tends to agree with the views of Melinda Zeder, an archeologist at the Smithsonian Institution. 【F4】
Zeder characterized domestication as an ongoing coexistence between humans and another species—"a sort of treaty that ends up being mutually beneficial" she said.
This relationship, she argued, can follow many paths and result in somewhat different outcomes, which she has catalogued.
"Cats are domesticated," Zeder said. 【F5】
"But I think what confuses people about cats is that they still carry some of the more remote behaviors of their solitary wild ancestors.
Sometimes they don’t give a damn about you, but they are very much part of your niche. Cats have us do everything for them. We clean their litter, stroke them, admire them, but unlike dogs they do not have to constantly please and satisfy our needs. They are probably the ultimate domesticate."
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“猫是家养动物吗?”根据谷歌搜索引擎自动生成的调查结论,在猫类动物信息的相关搜索中,这是搜索频率最高的问题之一。
解析
①本句是主系表结构,主语是引号内的问句。②表语部分中的questions由最高级形式的the most frequently Googled和后置的介词短语about the animals共同修饰,googled在文中的意义为“用谷歌搜索引擎进行搜索”,此处的the animals指代cats。③过去分词短语based on…suggestions在句中作状语,修饰逗号前的整句话。
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