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动物
Animals
The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.
我从小就被灌输的信念——尊重动物，了解自然，理解我们与其他生物共享这个星球——对我产生了巨大的影响。
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
他是物质的一种状态，是生命的一种形式，是一种动物，是灵长类动物的一种，与所有的生命，甚至是所有的物质，几乎或遥远地相似。
We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
我们吃动物是因为它们味道好。如果可以的话，穿皮草有什么不好?作为一个社会，我们需要认真思考我们制度化的动物使用。
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
在我们的遗产规划中，为动物制作持久的礼物，或许是我们能做的最重要的一件事，以确保动物拥有保护它们的最强有力的声音。
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
我的目标是，首先，展示陆地动物骨骼化石的历史与地球理论之间的联系，以及为什么它们在这方面具有特殊的重要性。
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
传统的学术科学把人类描述为高度发达的动物和生物思维机器。我们似乎是由原子、分子、细胞、组织和器官组成的牛顿物体。
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
人们总是明白，植物和动物虽然在它们的高级代表中是完全对立的，但在它们的低级和较简单的形式中却非常接近对方。但他们被认为不会融合。
Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.
即使不可能在动物身上复制这种疾病，从而验证这一假设，这一简单的观察也足以证明这种疾病的传播方式。
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
许多年前，人们就知道植物和动物是由不同的物质组成的:植物是由三种元素组成的化学物质——碳、氢和氧;四种元素之一的动物，氮被添加到其他三种元素中。
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
现在最好的意见是，有许多形态没有足够的区别来区分植物或动物，而就普通的植物和动物而言，给它们下一个定义比以往任何时候都困难得多。
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Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.
动物从来没有背叛过我。他们很容易成为猎物，就像我整个职业生涯一样。所以我们有同感。我爱他们。
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。
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
因为动物是财产，我们认为这是一种“人道的对待”，如果动物被强加于人类，我们会认为这是一种折磨。
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
对我来说，动物的命运比害怕显得可笑更重要;它与人类的命运密不可分。
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。
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。