Dogs Can't Help Falling in Love
No one disputes the sociability of dogs. But Clive Wynne’s “Dog Is Love: Why and How Your Dog Loves You,” one of the latest books to plumb the nature of dogs, is an extended argument about what makes dogs special — not how smart they are, but how friendly they are.
👉dispute vt. 质疑(to disagree with something that someone says)
👉plumb vt. 彻底弄清；探索 (if you plumb something difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it)
👉extended adj. 延展开的
an extended book/ an extended land/ an extended meeting
Humans, they suggested, may have selected friendly dogs over thousands of years of domestication and the Williams-Beuren genes may be one of the results. Other scientists have been cautious about the results, seeing the work as presenting an intriguing hypothesis that requires more research.
👉suggest v. 认为
在科研类文章中，suggest表达的是一种不确定性，告诉读者研究人员提出的论断并非板上钉钉的事实，而是还有待进一步研究。
👉intriguing adj. 有趣的
You have raised an intriguing argument.
你提出的观点挺有趣。（但还缺乏数据支撑）
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