[by:英语听力网|http://yingyu.chazidian.com||查字典英语网] [00:00.00]喜欢chazidian.com，就把chazidian.com复制到QQ个人资料中！Lesson 23 [00:01.59]第23课 [00:03.19]Television Day:Right or left? [00:05.86]电视日:是右还是左? [00:08.54]Which of your two hands do you use most? [00:11.12]你最常用哪只手? [00:13.69]Very few of us can use both of our hands equally well. [00:16.51]我们当中很少有人能双手都运用自如. [00:19.33]Most of us are right-handed. [00:21.16]多数人惯用右手. [00:22.99]Only about five people out of a hundred are left-handed. [00:25.77]每100人中大约只有5人是左撇子. [00:28.55]New-born babies can grasp objects with either of their hands, [00:31.48]初生婴儿能用任何一个手握东西. [00:34.40]but in about two years they usually prefer to use their right hands. [00:37.47]但过2年他们通常用右手了. [00:40.54]Scientists don't know why this happens. [00:42.72]科学家不知道这是怎么形成的. [00:44.90]They used to think that that we inherited this tendency from our animal ancestors [00:47.99]过去他们常认为我们从我们的动物祖先那儿继承了这一习性, [00:51.07]but this may not be true. [00:52.83]但这不一定对. [00:54.60]Monkeys are our closest relatives in the animal world. [00:57.17]猴子是我们在动物世界中关系最近的动物. [00:59.74]Scientists have found that [01:01.43]科学家们发现 [01:03.11]monkeys prefer to use one of their hands more than the other [01:05.79]猴子喜欢用某只手多于另一只手 [01:08.47]but it can be either hand. [01:10.19]但这可是两只手中的任何一只. [01:11.92]There are as many right-handed monkeys as there are left-handed ones. [01:14.95]用右手的猴子与用左手的猴子一样多. [01:17.98]Next time you visit the zoo,watch the monkeys carefully. [01:20.65]下次你去动物园时,仔细观察一下猴子. [01:23.33]You'll see that some of them will prefer to swing from their right hands [01:26.15]你会发现有些猴子用右手荡秋千, [01:28.97]and others will use their left hands. [01:31.00]而另一些猴子则用左手. [01:33.02]But most human beings use their right hands better. [01:35.66]但大多数人用右手更为灵活, [01:38.30]and this makes life difficult for those who prefer to use their left hands. [01:41.22]这就使得用左手的人生活较困难些. [01:44.15]We live in a right-handed world. [01:46.32]我们生活在一个惯用右手的世界.