Indeed, the merepresence of a grape in the other chamber (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to induce resentment in a female capuchin.
事实上,只要葡萄出现在其它房间里(不用有猴子真的去吃),就足以引起一只雌性卷尾猴的愤恨。
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Imagine that an alien species landed on Earth and, through their merepresence, those aliens caused our art to vanish, our music to homogenize, and our technological know-how to disappear.