每日听写12.2中级

They’re cute, they're lovable,
它们很可爱，惹人喜欢，
and judging by the 26 billions views of over 2 million YouTube videos of them pouncing,
观众超过260亿人次，YouTube视频200万个，只为了欣赏它们的抓、
bouncing, climbing, cramming, stalking, clawing, chattering, and purring,
扑、跳跃、攀爬、狼吞虎咽、潜行、抓挠、不停地叫甚至打呼噜，
one thing is certain: cats are very entertaining.
有件事是确定的：猫非常很有趣。
These somewhat strange feline behaviors, both amusing and baffling,
这些猫科动物的奇怪行为，既好玩也让人困惑，
leave many of us asking, 'Why do cats do that?'
让我们不由自主地要问：“猫为什么这样呢？”
Throughout time, cats were simultaneously solitary predators of smaller animals and preyfor larger carnivores.
一直以来，猫科动物既能独立猎食小动物，也是大型食肉动物的猎物。
As both predator and prey, survival of their species depended on crucial instinctual behaviors
同时作为捕食者和猎物，物种的生存取决于决定性的生物本能，
which we still observe in wild and domestic cats today.
这些我们今天可以从野生或者家养的猫观察到。