According to a newly published study, cats seem to be able to predict the location of hiding prey using both their ears and an inborn understanding of how the physical world works.

根据一项新发表的研究，猫似乎能够通过它们的耳朵和与生俱来的对物质世界运作方式的理解来预测隐藏猎物的位置。

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The scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover the very nature of the physical world.

这位科学家正在进行认真的研究，以揭示物理世界的本质。

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Some psychologists suggest that young children learn about more than just the physical world in this way.

一些心理学家建议，小孩子通过这种方式学习的不仅仅是物质世界。

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The United Nations cultural organization UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1998 - a designation for places of special physical or cultural value.

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Can we see-- use some of the same methods that we've looked at for the physical world to look at the social world?

我们能够应用,看待物质世界的一些方式,来看待社会世界吗

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In that autistic people show no impairments dealing with the physical world, they show no impairments on-- they don't necessarily show any impairments on mathematical skills or spatial skills, but they have a lot of problems with people.

因为孤独症患者并未表现出生理上的缺陷,所以他们并不会在数学技能或空间技能上,表现出什么缺陷,但他们却在人际交往方面存在很多问题

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The use of Bitcoins has been slowly spilling from the online into the physical world - for example, it is now possible to use the currency to buy pizza.

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They have a tough group with the world champions - and in my opinion the best team in the world - Brazil, a brave and physical Norwegian side and the unknown quantity of Morocco.

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Being able to find a business by name rather than having to look up its address is the physical-world equivalent of typing in a domain name versus having to remember an IP address.

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