Entitled ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot, the accompanying four-minute video of a lamp that interacts with users, reacts to gestures and moves accordingly is very similar to the well-known lamp from animation studio PIXAR.

这篇论文题为《ELEGNT：非拟人机器人富有表现力和功能性运动设计》，附带一段四分钟视频展示了一盏台灯与用户互动、对动作做出反应并相应移动，它与皮克斯动画工作室著名台灯形象非常相似。

So participants interacting with our humanlike bots were more concerned about social evaluation and as a result of this social apprehension, they also gave more socially desirable responses.

那些和拟人机器人互动参与者更在意社交评价，而因为这样社交顾虑，他们做出了更多符合社会喜好回应。

Children's stories, fables and folklore often feature anthropomorphized animals.

儿童故事、寓言和民间说经常以拟人动物为主角。

So we're going to look at the definition of personification.

所以我们来看看拟人义。

Walt experimented with some of the themes that would later become a staple of his production: anthropomorphised animals, innovative takes on classic fairy tales, a keen ear for popular music — jazz at that time — and slapstick humour.

华特尝试了一些后来成为他作品标志主题：拟人动物、对经典童话创新演绎、对流行音乐（当时是爵士乐）敏锐嗅觉，以及滑稽幽默。

Americans may think of their names as just collections of phonemes that their parents thought sounded nice, but names, known as anthroponyms, have etymologies just like any other words.

美国人可能认为他们名字只是他们父母认为好听音素集合，但是名字，也就是所谓拟人词，和其他单词一样，也有词源。

Greek temples were anthropomorphic, and I said, " If you have to go back, you can go 300 million years before man to fish." And I just said that.

希腊神庙是拟人，我说，“如果你必须追溯过去，你可以追溯到三亿年前人类未出现，只有鱼时代。”我当时就那么说了。

Finally, the Roman anthropomorphic gods and goddesses made up a family ruled in the very best Roman sense by the great shining pater familias Jupiter, formerly a lightening bolt.

最后，罗马拟人神组成了一个家庭这个家庭在罗马人看来很棒由朱庇特作为家父他之前是闪电光速拳。

For the " lies" crowd, though, the humanising metaphor is even more profound: the AI is not only thinking, but has desires and intentions.

然而，对于“谎言”派来说，这个拟人比喻有更深刻含义：人工智能不仅在思考，而且有欲望和意图。

Don't do it all the time, but if you're writing a story, try to get a couple of uses of personification in there.

不要总是这么做，但是如果你在写一篇报道，可以试着做几个拟人用法。

This may have influenced animators to stick with four fingers per hand even when drawing anthropomorphized versions of the animals.

这可能影响了动画师，即使在绘制拟人版本动物时也坚持使用四根手指。

This work is about transferring our gestures onto a virtual human's face in a way that is physically correct.

这次论文讲述了在虚拟人脸上改变神态有关内容，从这一点来看，是对身体调整。

Sir Richard Burton, the African explorer, kept a collection of monkeys. He gave them all human roles, anthropomorphic roles.

非洲探险家理查德·伯顿收集了许多猴子。他给了这些猴子拟人角色。

This animated film tells the tale of an anthropomorphised dog who becomes fast friends with a robot.

这部动画电影讲述了一只拟人狗与一个机器人成为亲密朋友故事。

So, for instance, our humanlike bots use so-called speed disfluencies and social language cues, like these " ohos" , " ahas" , " hmms" we humans love to use in our conversations to signal our presence to conversation partners.

举例来说，我们拟人机器人可以使用所谓交谈缓冲词和社交语言信号，例如人类在交谈中喜欢用“喔”、“啊哈”、“嗯”来暗示交谈对象我们在听。

So I've really focused on packing that idea.

所以，我在思考这句话背后拟人。

Humans' tendency to anthropomorphise things they don't understand is ancient, and may confer an evolutionary advantage.

人类把自己不理解东西拟人倾向自古有之，这可能会带来进优势。

These chatbots were programmed to simulate text-based conversations and they were designed to be either very social and humanlike or very functional and machine-like.

这些机器人可以模拟文字聊天，他们有是拟人社交型，有是很机械功能型。

The speaker uses personification in the quote, wilderness swallows you up to create a menacing wilderness is personified to make the reader feel overwhelmed by the natural world as if wilderness is a monster with jaws to swallow you whole.

演讲者在引用中使用了拟人，创造了一个来势汹汹、拟人荒野，让读者感到被自然世淹没，仿佛荒野是一个有下巴把你整个吞噬怪物。

I love this example of personification, so " That breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odor. "

我喜欢这个拟人例子，所以“就像微风吹拂一丛紫罗兰，发出轻柔声音，一面把花香偷走，一面又把花香分送。”