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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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也不能说这些特征不对，但是听起来好像是针对某种鸟量身定做的，有很多鸟不全都符合这些特征，怎么办？

yě bù néng shuō zhèxiē tèzhēng bù duì ，dànshì tīng qǐlai hǎoxiàng shì zhēnduì mǒuzhǒng niǎo liángshēndìngzuò de ，yǒu hěn duō niǎo bù quándōu fúhé zhèxiē tèzhēng ，zěnme bàn ？

It's not that these features are incorrect, but it sounds like it's describing one bird in particular, as many birds don't fit this description, so how could it work?

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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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同种同宗是有可能的，东亚人本来就有很多相同的特征。但也说明不了中国人是日本人的祖先呀！

tóngzhǒngtóngzōng shì yǒu kěnéng de ，dōngyàrén běnlái jiù yǒu hěnduō xiāngtóng de tèzhēng 。dàn yě shuōmíngbùliǎo zhōngguórén shì rìběnrén de zǔxiān yā ！

It's very possible that we have a lot in common. There are many distinctive points of similarity among East Asian peoples. But that doesn't mean that the Chinese are the ancestors of the Japanese!

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油腻:是对某些中年男子特征的概括描述，这些特征包括不注重身材保养、不修边幅、谈吐粗鲁等。是个贬义词。

yóunì shì duì mǒuxiē zhōngnián nánzǐ tèzhēng de gàikuò miáoshù ，zhèxiē tèzhēng bāokuò bù zhùzhòng shēncái bǎoyǎng 、bùxiūbiānfú 、tántǔ cūlǔ děng 。shì ge biǎnyì cí 。

油腻(greasy): It is a term that implies that a person's integrity is questionable. It is a derogatory term.

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不少业内人士呼吁，电子烟完全符合烟草制品的特征，应尽快纳入监管范围之内。

bùshǎo yènèirénshì hūyù ，diànzǐyān wánquán fúhé yāncǎo zhìpǐn de tèzhēng ，yīng jǐnkuài nàrù jiānguǎn fànwéi zhīnèi 。

Many people in the industry agree that e-cigarettes completely fulfills the characteristics of tobacco and should therefore be included in the scope of supervision as soon as possible.

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刚才大家提到的这些说法都存在。今天呢，我们要从达尔文的“进化论”的角度来讲讲人类的起源。达尔文认为，人是由古猿进化而来的。大家想想看，人具有哪些古猿所没有的特征？

gāngcái dàjiā tídào de zhèxiē shuōfa dōu cúnzài 。jīntiān ne ，wǒmen yào cóng Dá\'ěrwén de “Jìnhuàlùn ”de jiǎodù lái jiǎng jiang rénlèi de qǐyuán 。Dá\'ěrwén rènwéi ，rén shì yóu gǔyuán jìnhuà ér lái de 。dàjiā xiǎngxiang kàn ，rén jùyǒu nǎxiē gǔyuán suǒ méiyǒu de tèzhēng ？

All those ideas that everyone just brought up do exist, but today, we're going to talk about the origins of humanity from the perspective of Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin thought that people evolved from prehistoric apes. Everyone, think about it a bit; what distinctive features do humans have that prehistoric apes do not?

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