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Of all the weird and wonderful events of the 1960s, few are as strange as an animal experiment that took place on the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1965. 上世纪六十年代的所有奇闻异事中，很少有能比得上1965年发生在美国维京群岛的“海豚恋人”动物实验事件。 For ten weeks, in a charming villa on the island of St Thomas, overlooking the Caribbean, Dr John C. Lilly, a neurologist, tried to teach a six-year-old dolphin to speak English. 在圣托马斯岛的一座可以俯瞰加勒比海的美丽别墅里，约翰·莉莉博士进行了一个为期10周的实验——教一只6岁的海豚说英语。 Margaret Howe, an experiment assistant, would live, day and night, with Peter, a bottlenose dolphin. And they would eat, bathe, sleep and play together in complete isolation. 实验助理玛格丽特·豪和一只名叫彼得的宽吻海豚在与世隔绝的环境里同吃同住。 The water on the first floor of the lab was 22in deep, allowing Margaret to wade and Peter to swim. At night, she lifted herself onto a hanging mattress, protected from Peter’s splashings by a shower curtain. She ate tinned food, so no need for any deliveries. No one was to interrupt their daily routine. 实验室一楼的水有22英寸深，彼得可以在那里游泳，玛格丽特也可以站在水中。晚上玛格丽特盖着浴巾睡在吊床上，免得被彼得弄出的水花溅湿。她只吃罐头食品，不叫外卖。没人能打扰她和彼得。 | 
