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大家周末愉快！这篇内容比较轻松愉悦，轻松一刻～
但是划线句不太好翻译哦，建议动笔翻译练习。
While this is undeniably true, it would be illogical to suppose that （these feelings of goodwill would be in any way diminished /if these brave souls also received adequate training and market wages for their efforts）.
虽然不可否认这是事实，但如果你认为，假如这些勇敢的人也获得了适当的培训和与其付出相应的市场水平工资，这些善念就会消失，那么这样想是不合逻辑的。（尽管这个说法毋庸置疑是正确的，但是鉴于那些勇士所做出的贡献，认为为他们提供足够的训练和正常的市场工资会使这份美好愿景受到玷污实在是太荒谬了。）
these feelings of goodwill指的是前文的“使命感和救赎感”
1.illogical: not sensible or thought out in a logical way
2.diminish: to become or to make sth become smaller, weaker, etc.
一位前亚马逊工程师努力试图回答一个几乎所有猫主人都有的问题：我的猫想要告诉我什么?
Javier Sanchez, who worked on Amazon's Alexa, is now a project manager with the Bellvue, Washington, tech company Akvelon, and is in a
feline
state of mind for his current project, according to King5. Sanchez is currently developing an app called MeowTalk, a creation that promises to translate your cat's
vocalizations
into something humans can understand.
哈维尔·桑切斯曾供职于亚马逊的Alexa，现在是华盛顿贝尔维埃科技公司Akvelon的项目经理，据King5网站报道，为了他现在的项目，他目前正处于一种猫一样的精神状态。Sanchez目前正在开发一款名为MeowTalk的应用，这款应用有望将你的猫的叫声翻译成人类可以理解的东西。
"It's not a language. They don’t share words or communicate with each other. Cats never
meow
at each other out
in nature
," Sanchez told the local NBC
affiliate
about meows.
“这不是一种语言。它们不会交头接耳，也不会相互交流。猫咪在大自然中从来不会互相喵喵叫。”桑切斯向当地NBC电视台讲述了猫叫的情况。
Through research, Sanchez and his team have found that cats often have one of nine different intents they are trying to
relay
when they meow at you, and each message has its own type of meow.
Using his Alexa experience and this research, Sanchez is working to decode meows into the phrases that cats are trying to convey, like "I'm hungry" and "I'm in pain." Cat owners who download the app are able to record their cat's meows and then get a translation of the sound.
桑切斯正在利用他在Alexa的经验和这项研究，努力将喵叫声解码成猫咪想要表达的短语，比如“我饿了”和“我不舒服”。猫咪主人下载了这款应用后，就可以录下猫咪的叫声，然后得到声音的翻译内容。
Pet parents then have the option to
fine-tune
and train the app to learn their pet's unique vocalizations. Owners are also able to provide feedback to Meowtalk on the accuracy of the app's translations.
然后，宠物的家长可以选择调整和训练该应用程序，以学习宠物独特的发声方式。用户还可以向Meowtalk反馈翻译的准确性。
本文节选自：People
发布时间：2020.11.13
作者：Kelli Bender
原文标题：Former Amazon Engineer Creates App to Translate Cat Meows into Words Humans Understand
