来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论第11集》

If you are a rat and you have toxoplasmosis,

如果你是只老鼠并且你有弓形虫病的话
you are perfectly healthy except for one thing.

你会非常健康只有一件事例外
The toxoplasmosis rewires your brain

弓形虫重新设计了你的大脑
and it makes you less afraid of cats.

然后它让你没那么怕猫了
Now, again,

现在再一次的
this is not some sort of bizarre quirk of a humorous god.

这不是什么搞笑的神设计的奇异夸克
Rather, it's because this is a perfectly--

而是因为这是一种完美的
this is the adaptive strategy of the toxoplasmosis virus.

这是一种弓形虫病毒的适应手段
In fact, a real powerful virus

事实上一个真正强大的病毒
would skip the respiratory system altogether,

可以直接完全的跳过呼吸系统
even better than a cold virus.

比感冒病毒还强
What it would do is it would take over the brain

它会做的是它将控制人的大脑