[Listen] 超乎想像的狗鼻子

How do dogs "see" with their noses? 
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As it turns out, humanity's best friend is not one who experiences the same thing we do, but one whose incredible nose reveals a whole other world beyond our eyes

Words to take away 1. 鬱金香: tulips
The tulips look great
2. 鼻孔: nostril
The ability to sniff separately with each nostril, smelling in stereo, helps to determine the direction of the smell's source
3. 嗅覺的: olfactory
a region filled with highly specialized olfactory receptors
4. 笨拙、不靈活: clumsy
5. 裂縫、狹縫: slit
6. 漩渦: swirl
unlike our clumsy way of breathing in and out through the same passage, dogs exhale through the slits at the side of their nose, creating swirls of air that help draw in new odor molecules
7. 和鼻子有關的: nasal
8. 搜索、打探: snoop up
All that impressive nasal architecture wouldn't be much help without something to process the loads of information the noose snoops up
9. 驚人的: staggering
It allows dogs remember a staggering variety of specific scents
10. 噴霧: spritz
If you can smell a spritz of perfume in a small room, a dog would have no trouble smelling it in an enclosed stadium, and distinguish its ingredients to boot
11. hormones: 賀爾蒙
12. primal: 本能的
13. thalamus: 丘腦; 控制情感和嗅覺以外的所有器官
Because olfaction is more primal than other senses, bypassing the thalamus to connect directly to the brain structure involving emotional and instincts
14. visceral: 發自內心
We might even say a dog's perception is more immediate and visceral than ours
15. traverse: 穿越、穿過
The most amazing thing about your dog's nose is that it can traverse time
16. canine: 犬類
In some of the best examples of canine-human collaboration, dogs help us by sharing and reacting to those stories