To find out if this extends to non-living beings, Laleh Quinn at the University of California, San Diego, and her colleagues tested whether rats can detect social signals from robotic rats.
为了确定这一点是否适用于非生物，加州大学圣地亚哥分校的Laleh Quinn及其同事测试了老鼠是否能探测到机械鼠发出的社交信号。
They housed eight adult rats with two types of robotic rat—one social and one asocial—for four days.
他们将八只成年老鼠与两种类型的机器人鼠——一种社交型，一种非社交型——共同饲养了四天。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。