[简答题]Translate the following text into Chinese. Perhaps you've had to put up with a moody, uncooperative teenager. You may well have been one yourself. A new study suggests that dogs go through a similar phase of stubbornness and disobedience when they hit puberty at about eight months old.
Looking at the behaviour of a total of 378 canines, researchers found that the animals were more obedient and more responsive either side of that eight-month mark – but only when it came to their owners, not to less familiar trainers.
So not only do dogs appear to have a difficult adolescence just like we do, they also share the frustration that we often feel towards our parents or caregivers when we hit our teenage years. That has big implications for long-term canine care and sheltering.
"This is a very important time in a dog's life," says animal behaviour researcher Lucy Asher, from Newcastle University in the UK. "This is when dogs are often rehomed because they are no longer a cute little puppy and suddenly, their owners find they are more challenging and they can no longer control them or train them."
"But as with human teenage children, owners need to be aware that their dog is going through a phase and it will pass."
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你身边情绪化、叛逆的青少年可能够你受的,你自己曾经可能也是其中一员。一项新的研究显示,狗狗在8个月大的时候会经历相似的倔强叛逆的阶段。
研究人员观察了378只犬的行为,发现这些狗狗在8个月前后都更听话、反应更快,但只对主人这样,对不太熟悉的训导员就不会这样。
所以狗狗不仅会像我们一样有一个麻烦的青春期,而且也和我们十多岁时一样,对父母或者照顾我们的人很失望。这对长期犬类护理和保护意义重大。
来自英国纽卡斯尔大学的动物行为研究员Lucy Asher说:“这是狗狗生命中很重要的时期,通常都是在这时给它们找新主人,因为它们不再是小狗崽了,主人突然发现它们很让人伤脑筋,不好进行控制或训练。”
“但是就像对待青春期的小孩一样,主人需要知道这只是暂时的,这种情况会过去的。”
题目解析
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put up with:忍受;moody:情绪多变的,情绪化的;uncooperative:不愿合作的,叛逆的;long-term:长期的,长远的。
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第二段that引导的从句作found的宾语;
第三段的so...that 引导结果状语从句;
第四段是because引导的原因状语从句;
第五段that引导的从句作aware的宾语。