However, in many ways they are all alike.

然而，在很多方面它们是相似的。

The dogs donned costumes and partied with their owners on Copacabana Beach.

在科帕卡巴纳滩，狗狗们身穿特色服装陪伴在它们的主身边。

Societies accrue their greatest wealth at the the moment that they face death.

在它们行将就木的那个时刻，社会积累的财富才达到顶峰。

Even without morning light, their circadian rhythms told them when dawn should be breaking.

即使没有晨光，它们的生物钟也会告诉它们什么时候天亮。

They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

它们昏乱的指头会挑到任何，任何。

Dogs are always faithful to their masters.

狗总是对它们的主忠实。

Technically, these are still lives, but there's nothing still about them.

从技巧角度说，它们是有生命的，可仍然算不什么。

If that happens, those mutant variants can outcompete their cousins and dominate.

如果发生了这情况，这些变异的变就会超过它们的表亲，占据主导地位。

And the load they were bearing was human history.

它们载负的是类的历史。

They've marked his face and now they've marked his mind.

它们曾经在他的留下了伤疤，如今他的心里也留下了痕迹。

“While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error, ” says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, “we can't yet give a robot enough 'common sense' to reliably interact with a dynamic world.”

“虽然我们知道如何让机器去纠正一个特定的错误，”NASA的一个机器项目经理戴维·拉维里说，“我们仍然不能赋予机器以足够的‘常识’，使它们能够与动态的世界进行可靠的交流。”

I get such a strong feeling of satisfaction when I see the animals get better and the look of joy on their owners' faces.

当我看到动物变好和它们主的喜悦时心里就会有很强烈的满足感。

Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.

如同在蚂蚁圈养一些被称蚜虫的虫子以获得它们所产出的蜜汁一样，谷歌圈养我们也是了获取我们数字生活所产出的数据。

How our hearts bound to the music of their solitary cries, to the tinkle of their gushing rills, to the sound of their cataracts!

我们的心灵如何与它们孤独的呐喊那雄浑的乐声，与小溪潺潺的悦耳声音，与山间大瀑布的隆隆声连在一起！

So, setting their species aside, these two buddies bonded and had been inseparable ever since.

先不管它们的物差异，自从他们两个在一起后就亲密无间了。

The lemmings leave their nests all together at the same time, forming huge crowds.

旅鼠会在同一时间一起离开它们的巢穴，组成巨大的迁徙群体。

We - - we lose so much of our open history without noticing and as an outsider, as a foreigner with fresh eyes I can see that, you know, there was something here that was being taken down, demolished, removed.

我们没有留意到我们的历史，我们只是旁观者，作外国 ，我们看到的只是它们被拆除、破坏、挪走。

There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump.

霍格沃茨的楼梯总共有一百四十二处之多。它们有的又宽又大；有的又窄又小，而且摇摇晃晃；有的每逢星期五就通到不同的地方；有些到半截，一个台阶会突然消失，你得记住在什么地方应当跳过去。

My particular interest is Asiatic lions, which are a sub-species of African lions.

我对亚洲狮特别感兴趣。它们是非洲狮的亚。

The best way to protect them is to make every effort to preserve the delicate balance of their forest environment - in other words, their ecosystem.

要保护它们最好的办法就是努力维护它们生存的森林环境的微妙平衡，换句话说，就是要保护它们的生态环境。