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wǒ shì gùyì de ，bié shēngqì ，bùguò huàshuōhuílai ，nǐ zhīdào gǔdiǎn fēnlèi lǐlùn miáoshù “niǎo ”de tèzhēng bāokuò hóngsè de xiōngyǔ 、gútou hěn qīng ，hái yào huì chànggē ò ，nǐ juéde nǐ de "tuóniǎo ”yǒu duō xiàng niǎo ne ？

I was being facetious, don't get angry. Speaking of that though, did you know that ancient taxonomic theory describes birds as having red breast feathers, lightweight bones and as having the ability to sing. How does your ostrich measure up to the bird standard?

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岂敢岂敢，只是最近读认知语言学相关的文献，觉得很有趣罢了，就像你说的，古典分类理论描述的典型的鸟是以知更鸟为原型。

qǐgǎn qǐgǎn ，zhǐshì zuìjìn dú rènzhī xiāngguān de wénxiàn ，juéde hěn yǒuqù bàle ，jiù xiàng nǐshuōde ，gǔdiǎn fēnlèi lǐlùn miáoshù de diǎnxíng de niǎo shì yǐ zhīgèngniǎo wèi yuánxíng 。

I wouldn't dare, it's just that recently I've been reading some cognitive linguistics literature and I just thought it was interesting is all. Like you said, the model bird in classical taxonomic theory takes the robin as its prototype.

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嗯...或许是因为写下这些特征的是西方人，如果这个物种描述法是你发明的，可能就是用麻雀当原型了。

ng4 ...huòxǔ shì yīnwèi xiěxià zhèxiē tèzhēng de shì xīfāngrén ，rúguǒ zhè ge wùzhǒng miáoshùfǎ shì nǐ fāmíng de ，kěnéng jiùshì yòng máquè dāng yuánxíng le 。

Hmm... perhaps it is because the people who wrote down these features were Westerners. If you'd invented this form of description, maybe the sparrow would have been used as the original form.

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多数无人便利店以扫描商品条形码的方式自助收银，但面包坊里的多数糕点并没有预包装，这给自助收银增加了难度。

duōshù wúrén biànlìdiàn yǐ sǎomiáo shāngpǐn tiáoxíngmǎ de fāngshì zìzhù shōuyín ，dàn miànbāo Fāng lǐ de duōshù gāodiǎn bìng méiyǒu yù bāozhuāng ，zhè gěi zìzhù shōuyín zēngjiā le nándù 。

Numerous unmanned self service convenience stores rely on the barcodes found on products packaging to complete the self service checkout. However most of the bread and pastries in bakeries are not prepackaged which raises the difficulty for self service checkout

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与此同时，屏幕上出现了各类商品的数量和金额，这时点击“结账将支付宝付款码对着扫描仪一扫，就完成了付款。

yǔcǐtóngshí ，píngmù shàng chūxiàn le gèlèi shāngpǐn de shùliàng hé jīné ，zhèshí diǎnjī “jiézhàng jiāng Zhīfùbǎo fùkuǎn mǎ duì zhe sǎomiáoyí yī sǎo ，jiù wánchéng le fùkuǎn 。

At the same time, the number and amount of various items appear on the screen, Click “pay” and flash Alipay barcode details to the scanner to complete the payment process

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自助收银台就像一个投影仪，当托盘放在扫描仪下方，眼前的屏幕就出现了商品的照片，点击“开始扫描”，托盘里的商品立刻被标出了“葡式蛋挞老婆饼”等名字。

zìzhù shōuyíntái jiù xiàng yīgē tóuyǐngyí ，dāng tuōpán fàng zài sǎomiáoyí xiàfāng ，yǎnqián de píngmù jiù chūxiàn le shāngpǐn de zhàopiàn ，diǎnjī “kāishǐ sǎomiáo ”，tuōpán lǐ de shāngpǐn lìkè bèi biāochū le “pǔshì dàntǎ lǎopóbǐng ”děng míngzi 。

The self service checkout counter was like a projector, when the tray was put under the scanner, the screen on the checkout showed pictures of pastries, and when you click begin scan, photos of the pastries on the tray “Portuguese egg tart”, “old wife’s cake” etc appeared on the screen

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味多美相关负责人介绍，店里的自助收银系统采用了人工智能图形识别技术，系统预先给每个商品拍摄了上百张不同角度的照片，即使糕点只露出一个小角，扫描仪也能识别出来。

wèiduōměi xiāngguān fùzérén jièshào ，diàn lǐ de zìzhù shōuyín xìtǒng cǎiyòng le réngōngzhìnéng túxíng shíbié jìshù ，xìtǒng yùxiān gěi měigè shāngpǐn pāishè le shàng bǎi zhāng bùtóng jiǎodù de zhàopiàn ，jíshǐ gāodiǎn zhǐ lùchū yīgē xiǎo Jué ，sǎomiáoyí yě néng shíbié chūlái 。

A representative from Wedome explained that the self service checkout system in the store uses intelligent graphics recognition technology. The system takes more than 100 photos of each merchandise at different angles, therefore even if the bread or pastry has a corner exposed, the scanner will be able to recognise it.

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托盘下方是一个电子秤，通过对比扫描仪识别的数据和实测重量，可以算出是否有商品被遮盖。

tuōpán xiàfāng shì yīgē diànzǐbàng ，tōngguò duìbǐ sǎomiáoyí shíbié de shùjù hé shícè zhòngliàng ，kěyǐ suàn chū shìfǒu yǒu shāngpǐn bèi zhēgài 。

Under the pastry tray is an electronic scale which compares the weight with the weight of the items scanned to check if any items have been overlooked

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成，1915年爱因斯坦发表了一系列论文，而这些论文呢，描述了现代科学至关重要的广义相对论理论，听过吗？广义相对论？它奠定了我们目前了解重力的基础。

chéng ，1915 nián Àiyīnsītǎn fābiǎo le yīxìliè lùnwén ，ér zhèxiē lùnwén ne ，miáoshù le xiàndài kēxué zhìguānzhòngyào de guǎngyì xiāngduìlùn lǐlùn ，tīng guò ma ？guǎngyì xiāngduìlùn ？tā diàndìng le wǒmen mùqián liǎojiě zhònglì de jīchǔ 。

No problem. In 1915 Einstein published a series of theses, and these theses described the most important core theory in contemporary science, the theory of general relativity. Have you heard of it? The theory of general relativity? It laid the foundation for our current understanding of gravity.

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我认为，莫言生活的那个时代很辛苦，但他总能以一种调侃、自嘲的方式来描述那些苦难，给人一种笑中有泪，泪中有笑的体会。

wǒ rènwéi ，Mòyán shēnghuó de nàge shídài hěn xīnkǔ ，dàn tā zǒng néng yǐ yīzhǒng tiáokǎn 、zìcháo de fāngshì lái miáoshù nàxiē kǔn��n ，gěi rén yīzhǒng xiào zhōng yǒu lèi ，lèi zhōng yǒu xiào de tǐhuì 。

I think, the era in which Mo Yan lived was very difficult, but he is always able to make use of a satiric, self mocking way of describing these difficulties, making people feel melancholy amid laughter and laugh through their tears.

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