纪录片《狗狗秘闻》 07狗吠叫时的情绪

The idea that we can understand barking

我们可以把狗的叫声当作一门语言来理解

almost like a language has always been dismissed by scientists.

但这却从未引起科学家的关注

But in Hungary, they are trying to see if

而在匈牙利 我们尝试研究

there's any evidence to back up the claims made by dog owners.

能够支持那些狗主人言论的证据

Here, at eotvos lorand university in budapest,

这里是布拉佩斯的俄塔斯罗兰大学

Is the world's first research facility

这是世界上首个研究

dedicated¹ to investigating the human/dog relationship.

人狗之间关系的实验室

Dr Adam Miklosi wants to see

亚当·米克洛斯博士想知道

if we humans really can understand dogs' barks.

人类是否真的可以理解狗的叫声

Today, he's out on a field expedition collecting recordings².

今天他将在旷野上收集相关的记录

Scientists used to think that barking is

科学家总是认为狗吠只是随意的声音

a random³ noise without any specific information or content.

并不具备任何明确的信息或内容

However, we have a different idea.

然而 我们有了不同的意见

Dogs might tell us something about their emotions,

狗狗可能试图和我们分享他们的情绪

anger, fear, happiness, despair.

愤怒 害怕 高兴 失望

These are basic emotions which I think

我认为这些是最基本的情绪

humans might be able to recognise in the barking sound.

人们可以通过狗的叫声识别出这些

To test this idea, Adam and his team acted out

为了证实该观点 亚当和他的团队

a number of scenarios⁴, provoking dogs to bark in different ways.

设想了许多方法刺激狗用不同的声音吠叫

But when the recordings are played back to people,

但是当这些记录放回给人们听时

will they be able to match the bark to the emotion?

他们能够察觉到狗狗吠叫时的情绪吗

1 dedicated   

adj.一心一意的；献身的；热诚的

参考例句：

• He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
• His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。

2 recordings   

n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片

参考例句：

• a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
• old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐

3 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

4 scenarios   

n.[意]情节；剧本；事态；脚本

参考例句：

• Further, graphite cores may be safer than non-graphite cores under some accident scenarios. 再者，根据一些事故解说，石墨堆芯可比非石墨堆芯更安全一些。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• Again, scenarios should make it clear which modes are acceptable to users in various contexts. 同样，我们可以运用场景剧本来搞清楚在不同情境下哪些模式可被用户接受。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓