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||1:The latest scientific research can help dogs and their owners have happier, healthier relationships by encouraging people to understand dogs better.||2:But Mr Bradshaw is also fearful.||3:In particular, he deplores the incestuous narrowing of the gene pool that modern pedigree breeders have brought about.||4:Dogs today are rarely bred for their working abilities (herding, hunting, guarding), but for a very particular type of appearance, which inevitably risks the spread of physical and temperamental abnormalities.||5:Instead, he suggests that dogs be bred for the ideal behavioural traits associated with the role they will actually play.||6:He also worries that the increasing urbanisation of society and the pressures on couples to work long hours are putting dogs under huge strain.||7:He estimates that about 20% of Britain’s 8m dogs and America’s 70m suffer from “separation distress” when their owners leave the house, but argues that sensible training can teach them how to cope.
||1:最新的科学研究鼓励人们更好的理解狗狗,帮助狗狗和它们的饲主建立起更愉快、更健康的关系。||2:但 Mr Bradshaw还是很担心,他尤其痛恨为保持狗的纯种而进行的近亲繁殖,这使得现在狗的基因多样性越来越窄。||3:今天的狗狗很少是作为工作犬来繁育了(如牧羊、打猎、护卫),多数都是为了追究某些特殊的外形,这不可避免的造成狗狗身体、性情上的畸形,并随着繁育过程蔓延开来。||4:他主张,狗的繁育要使得它们能保留相应的行为模式以适应它们将要承担的角色。||5:他还担心随着城市化程度加深、人们工作时间增加给狗狗的压力也越来越大。||6:他估计,英国800万只狗狗,美国7000万只狗狗中大约20%,在它们的主人外出工作时,正遭受着“分离焦虑”的痛苦。||7:但他也认为如果训练得当狗狗们能应付的了。
IT IS not just the incestuous make-up of News Corporation’s board that annoys its shareholders.
不仅仅是新闻集团董事会排外的组织结构让其股东感到懊恼,
IT IS not just the incestuous make-up of News Corporation’s board that annoys its shareholders. Activist investors such as the Nathan Cummings Foundation also complain about the firm’s lack of transparency about its political donations.
不仅仅是新闻集团董事会排外的组织结构让其股东感到懊恼,就连诸如内森?卡明斯基基金会这样的投资积极分子也抱怨该公司在其政治献金项目上缺乏透明度。
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1.(of human relations) excessively close and resistant to outside influence.
‘the _incestuous_ nature of literary journalism’
‘But the brass business is what might be termed _incestuous_ and it isn’t rare for one of the ‘majors’ to make brass for another.’
2.Involving or guilty of incest.
‘the child of an _incestuous_ relationship’
‘The _incestuous_ marriage between Oedipus and Jocasta, a fruitful symbiotic union, had continued for seventeen years when the play Oedipus Rex begins.’
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