Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

  • -- William Cowper 威廉·考珀

人的每一步行动都是理性的,然而他却走错了路,而由本能引导的更卑鄙的东西很少会误入歧途。

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We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.

我们都有保护儿童免受伤害的自然本能。看到孩子受伤从来都不是一件有趣的事,即使只是擦伤了膝盖。但另一方面,孩子们需要接受身体上的挑战来学习和成长,擦伤膝盖和其他磕碰和瘀伤教会了他们关于自身极限的宝贵经验。

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

当我想要表现出人们能够做到的那种卑鄙的时候,为了让它可信,我发现我必须把它说得温和一些。在现实生活中,人们总是太过分了。

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

如果我们失去了爱和保护的本能和勇气,那将是可悲的。