If you don't, go and check out Bloom's Taxonomy.

如果你没有，去看看布鲁姆的分类。

In fact they aren't any one thing.

事实上，水母在分类上无法分类成单一群体。

To organize the chaos of life on Earth, zoologists, ecologists, and other " ists" rely on taxonomy, the branch of science dedicated to naming, describing, and classifying organisms.

为了整理地球上多样而复杂的命形式，动物、态和其他者依靠分类，是一门专门负责物命名、描述和分类的科分支。

It depends on where you decide to make your divisions - whether you are a lumper or a splitter, as they say in the biological world.

取决于你以什么立场来进行分类——即物界人士所说的，取决于你究竟是个“聚分类”还是个“分离分类”。

" Cyber taxonomy" , for instance, involves feeding DNA sequences from animals into computers, which can quickly decide whether it is a new species.

例如，“网络分类”涉及了将动物的DNA序列输入计算机，由此迅速确定它是否是一个新物种。

That means taxonomists created the entire category of lesser ape just to single out the poor gibbon as the weird kid on the playground.

就表示，分类创造了个分类来孤立可怜的长臂。他就像操场上被排挤的孩。

And, sort of like organizing your stuffed plant collection, scientists use taxonomy and systematics to organize the world of living things.

就像整理你的植物标本一样，科们用分类和系统来整理物世界。

So, taxonomy and systematics offer two different ways of making sense of the natural world.

因此，分类和系统提供了两种不同的方式来理解自然世界。

Robert Mooney is a biologist with Marine Taxonomic Services. He led a team of three divers at the site.

罗伯特·穆尼(Robert Mooney)是海洋分类服务中心的物。他带领一支由三名潜水员组成的潜水队前往现场。

But there his science came to a halt. Classifying was everything to him, so he knew nothing else.

可是他的问只局限在分类上。分类就是他的活，除此以外他什么都不知道。

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it's a battleground.

分类有时候被描述成一门科，有时候被描述成一种艺术，但实际上那是一个战场。

It takes eight to ten years to train a taxonomist, but none are coming along in Africa.

培养一名分类要花8一l0年时间，而在非洲没有接班人。

The fact is that taxonomy by and large is still quaintly wedded to paper.

实际情况是。总的来说，分类仍按老一套停留在纸上。

While systematics sheds light on organisms' evolutionary history and relationships, taxonomy focuses more on their characteristics.

系统分类揭示了物的进化历史和关系，而分类更多地关注它们的特征。

Taxonomy gives scientists all over the world a common language for talking about living things, like how two people from Japan can communicate by speaking Japanese, or two pigs can communicate using pig Latin.

分类为世界各地的科提供了一种谈论物的共同语言，比如两个日本人如何用日语交流，或者两头猪如何用猪拉丁语交流。

That's kind of like taxonomy, the science of classifying, naming, and describing organisms.

有点像分类——对物进行分类、命名和描述的科。

Writing in the journal Nature last year, the British biologist G. H. Godfray noted that there is a chronic lack of prestige and resources for taxonomists everywhere.

英国植物G.H.戈弗雷不久前在为《自然》杂志写的一篇文章里指出，哪里的分类都经常“缺少地位和资源”。

There were no specialized taxonomists in the whole of Africa, he told me.

他对我说，整个非洲没有专门的分类。

His expertise really is in jumping spider taxonomy.

他的专长确实在于跳蛛分类。

And our goal is that the phylogeny will match taxonomy.

我们的目标是系统发育与分类相匹配。