The song is about cheating on your significant other.[qh]
这首歌是关于出轨的。[qh]
Now, around the time that this song was in heavy rotation,[qh]
在这首歌特别流行的时候,[qh]
biologists were in deep discussion about whether bird species,[qh]
生物学家们深刻讨论了鸟类,[qh]
notably songbirds and waterfowl were actually monogamous or not.[qh]
特别是夜莺和水禽类是否真的是一夫一妻制。[qh]
See, for decades, generations of science students were taught that well over 90 percent of the bird species were monogamous.[qh]
几十年来,一代又一代的科学专业学生们学到的观念是:超过90%种类的鸟是一夫一妻制。[qh]
A male and female mating faithfully for life.[qh]
一雌一雄彼此一生忠贞不渝。[qh]
That was until the late 1980s, when a new laboratory technique came on the scene,[qh]
直到二十世纪八十年代末,一项新的实验技术问世了。[qh]
which could copy DNA from a small tissue or fluid sample and decode the genetics of individuals.[qh]
这项技术能够从少量组织或液体样本中复制DNA,然后解码个体的基因。[qh]
Now, before that technique, we were never ever certain about, 100 percent,[qh]
在这项技术出现之前,我们从来都不百分百确定,[qh]
who the parents of baby birds were. All we had were our field notes.[qh]
鸟宝宝的父母到底是谁。我们那时所有的证据只有现场考察的笔记。[qh]
And we would know which adults lived in a nest and which ones fed the baby birds.[qh]
根据这些笔记,我们知道了哪些成年鸟住在鸟巢中,哪些喂养鸟宝宝。[qh]
Well, come to find out, study after study kept coming in and we found so much evidence of infidelity[qh]
后来越来越多的研究表明,我们发现了大量出轨的证据,[qh]
among bird species, particularly these songbirds that we thought were the pinnacle of monogamy.[qh]
存在于鸟类之间,尤其是鸣禽之间,而我们以为鸣禽是最践行一夫一妻制的种类了。[qh]
It would have made Maury Povich jealous for the ratings.[qh]
(如果公开结果)这是让莫里·波维奇(美国脱口秀名人)都嫉妒的收视率。[qh]
It rocked biology and ornithology so hard, we had to modify and expand the entire definition of monogamy.[qh]
这一事实深刻地震撼了生物学和鸟类学界,我们不得不修正和扩大一夫一妻制的整个定义。[qh]