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“Donkeys are champions when it comes to carrying stuff and are good at going at deserts,” co-author Ludovic Orlando, an evolutionary biologist at Paul Sabin University in France, tells the publication.

“说到驮运东西，驴是佼佼者，而且它们擅长在沙漠中行走，”论文合著者、法国保罗·萨巴蒂埃大学的进化生物学家卢多维克·奥兰多对该刊物表示。

The problem with being a grownup is that there’s an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with — work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.

作为成年人的问题在于，有非常多严肃的事情要处理——工作、房贷、琢磨晚饭做什么。

The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff you’ll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you’ll buy.

原因很简单：你在店里待得越久，看到的东西就越多；看到的东西越多，买的就越多。

The reason for this is simple: The longer you stay in the store, the more stuff you’ll see, and the more stuff you see, the more you’ll buy.

原因很简单：你在店里待得越久，看到的东西就越多；看到的东西越多，买的就越多。

And supermarkets contain a lot of stuff.

而超市里的东西很多。

After about 40 minutes of shopping, most people stop struggling to be rationally selective, and instead begin shopping emotionally — which is the point at which we accumulate the 50 percent of stuff in our cart that we never intended buying.

购物大约40分钟后，大多数人就不再努力进行理性选择，而是开始情绪化购物——正是在这个时候，我们的购物车里堆积起了那50%原本根本没打算买的东西。

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call forth the spirit of plant and animal life, if only symbolically, through a clumplike arrangement of materials, an introduction of colors, small pools of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

在纽约市的大多数无家可归者花园里，真正种植植物是不可行的，但即便如此，这些布置似乎常常代表着一种尝试，试图通过将材料成簇排列、引入色彩、设置小水池以及频繁摆放花瓣、树叶和毛绒动物等方式，唤起动植物的生命精神，哪怕只是象征性的。

We stalk around thinking we’re hot stuff.

我们昂首阔步，自以为了不起。