What is the great trait in your personality?

你最大的优点是什么？

Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated.

他们的研究得出了一个非常令人惊奇的结论--我们通常称为天分的特征被高估了。

As in many fables, the animals are given human personality traits.

就像很多寓言一样，这些动物被赋予了人类的个性特征。

Those traits didn't pop up in humans.

这些特征并不会让人类与众不同。

Also, the trait spreads only with each successive generation.

其次，性状只有在不停繁衍下才会传播。

It's this playful, likeable trait that if you saw your 5-year-old kid, you'd want to pinch his little cheek.

他这个有趣可爱的特点，就像5岁的小孩子，你看到他就会想去捏捏他的小脸颊。

The chief traits in the American character are generosity and energy.

美国人个性的主要特点是慷慨。

This is not one of your more loveable traits.

这可不是你招人喜欢的特点。

Yet certain traits persist across temporal and geographic boundaries.

但某些特性在一定时间、地理范围内是能够保留下来的。

And we enact those free traits.

然后我们身上的可变 性格特点就会被激发。

No, what we mean when we say John or Sarah is phenomenally qualified for a job is that because of their experiences playing traditional sports, they have developed traits with real value in the workplace: diligence, perseverance, teamwork.

不，当我们说约翰或莎拉非常能够胜任一个工作时，那是因为从事传统运动的经验，他们培养了在工作场所具有真正价值的特质：勤奋、坚忍、团队作。

The best trait I have, being an entrepreneur, is that I am very naive.

作为企业家，我拥有的最佳特质是我很天真。

Finally, it is associated with the handing down of family traits and talents.

最后，它还意味着血脉天赋的传承。

These were not traits which I could imagine in Strickland.

而这些性格特点都不是我在思特里克兰德身上所能找到的。

No, but I think we have the same traits.

不像，但我认为我们有相似的地方。

That's actually a trait women like in men.

这是男人讨女人喜欢的点。

Turns out that regardless of evolutionary lineage, the animals react in a similar way to life among humans: they lose their antipredator traits. That pattern is especially pronounced for herbivores and for social species.

事实证明，不管进化谱系如何，这些动物对人类生的反应是相似的: 它们失去了反捕食者的特征。 这种模式在食草动物群居物种中尤为明显。

Might I in other people find the traits I like without the ones I fear?

我是否会在他人身上发现我喜爱的特质，同时没有我所畏惧的特质？

Obviously, person perception is a very subjective process that can be affected by a number of variables, including the characteristics of the person you are observing, the context of the situation, your own personal traits, and your past experiences.

显然，个人感知是一个非常主观的过程，可以受到许多变量的影响，包括你正在观察的人的特征、事件背景、你自己的个人特征你过去的经历。

Do these traits sound like someone you know?

你认识的人里面有没有谁有这些表现呢？