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动物
Animals
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
那些想要宠物和婴儿野生动物的人“爱”他们。但那些尊重他们的本性，希望让他们过上正常生活的人，会更爱他们。
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
在某种古老的传奇故事中，动物是程式化的角色——程式化是因为即使是最敏锐的动物，在扮演自己的角色时也没有多少回旋的余地。
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
动物能控制自己;他们的灵魂附在他们的身体上。但他们没有生命的权利，因为他们不愿意。
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
人们认为虐待穷人就是虐待动物。他们从不认为平等是不公平的;不，这是对同志的背叛。
I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.
我与动物和孩子们都有很好的关系。我达到了他们的水平。我试着去看一个孩子看待世界的方式，这是非常不同的。
I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
我喜欢动物。我喜欢自然史。旅行不是最重要的。旅行的部分是你必须做的为了去看动物。
You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.
你知道，它和软体动物是绝对相关的，这是我们在软体动物之后写的。这些东西让我想起了软体动物。
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
如果你客观地观察动物一段时间，你就会得出这样的结论:它们生活的主要目的是把基因传给下一代。
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.
对人类和低等动物的残忍，在一个世纪以前是不会引起注意的，现在却使人们的感情受到震动，被认为是邪恶和可耻的。
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
我们不需要吃动物，穿动物，或使用动物作为娱乐目的，我们唯一的防御这些用途是我们的乐趣，娱乐和方便。
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
如果没有超验的概念，人类就会变成动物;然而，只有傻瓜才会相信它，只有堕落的人才需要这样的信念。
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
皮草与其他由动物制成的材料，如皮革，在道德上没有区别，而皮革也是众生受苦和死亡的结果。
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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
动物常常给我们的印象是充满激情的机器。
I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.
我喜欢所有这些小动物，它们会跑，会吃，会藏。我喜欢他们的脸，他们看起来既害怕又好奇。
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
动物用它们的排泄物勾勒出它们的领地，人类用墨水在纸上勾勒出它们的领地。
You can have no more of a cat than her skin.
除了她的皮肤，你不能再养猫了。
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
我唯一不喜欢的动物是鹦鹉，但我边走边学。我做得越来越好了，真的。
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
不管动物承认与否，它们和我交流。