A young owl can be tamed easily, but this one is too old to tame.

一幼小的猫头鹰可以很容易驯化，但这老得无法驯化了。”

The civil service has house-trained them to a man!

文官把他们全部驯化了！

Well, it might be hard to think of an insect as domesticated.

嗯，可很难想象昆虫是被驯化的。

And how to detain them so they wouldn't bite the painter?

人们是怎样驯化这些松鼠不去咬画家的？

They sought to tame human selfishness.

都寻求驯化人类自私的心理。

Researchers were interested in understanding how domestication affected canine behavior.

研究人员非常想了解驯化对犬类行为的影响。

About 4,000 years ago,Bactrian camels were domesticated.

大约4000多年前人们驯化了双峰驼。

The grass is one of the oldest domesticated plants in the world.

这种草是世界上最古老的被驯化的植物之一。

So those are the ones we probably would have tried to domesticate.

所以这些是我们可图驯化的。

Some scientists theorize that we may have even domesticated ourselves.

一些科学家推测，我们甚至可驯化了自己。

But did domestication and the evolutionary split happen at the same time?

但是人类将犬驯化及分化究竟是不是同时发生的?

The sugarcane plant was first domesticated around 8000 BC.

甘蔗植物在公元前 8000 年左右首次被驯化。

Or is it a trait that was selected for when dogs first became domesticated?

或是说这是狗最初被驯化时选出的特征吗?

Grapes were probably the first fruit domesticated by humans.

5。葡萄应该是人类最早驯化的水果。

So, in a way, cats did domesticate themselves.

所以在某种程度上，喵星人是驯化了自身。

What if animals don't need to be domesticated but instead simply need to be socialized?

如果动物不需要被驯化，而是需要社化呢?

A rugged people, and through soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good.

用温和的步骤 驯化他们，使他们成为有用的良民。

All of this helps to underscore just how recently cat domestication took place.

所有这些都有助于强调猫的驯化是最近发生的。

The domestication of animals allowed people to raise and use animals for food and work.

动物的驯化使人们够饲养和使用动物作为食物和工作。

In fact, as we domesticated animals, their appearances tended to change too.

事实上，随着我们对动物的驯化，它们的外表也趋于改变。