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人类

Human

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.

当你扮演一名医生时,你必须看起来你能做到,但实际上你并没有去做。这不像你学习如何切开一个人然后去做手术。你必须想到一个人,而不是去想象那是什么样子。

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

人类的成长是一个独特的社会关系问题,而不是生物学问题。我们从家庭内部的联系中学到的东西取代了动物行为的本能;这就提出了一个问题,这些联系有多好?

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

从前,有一位王后,她有一个非常丑、非常畸形的儿子。不过,他出生时的一位仙女说,尽管如此,他还是会非常和蔼可亲的,因为他有非常好的判断力。

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

因为人文主义也呼唤人的为人。它寻求把人类本性的普遍品质从血、土和阶级的狭隘限制中解放出来,并创造一种共同的语言和文化,在这种语言和文化中,人们可以实现他们共同的人性。

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

首先,对我来说,真理和力量是对立的,对立的,几乎永远无法解决。其实我可以定义,可以简化人类社会的历史,人类社会的进化,就像权力和自由之间的竞争。

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

在所有的说谎者中,最傲慢的是传记作家:这些人会让我们相信,在调查了几个装满信件、日记、银行对账单和照片的盒子之后,他们可以像录音天使一样,讲述另一个人生活的全部真相。

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

群众的每一步每一个动作,即使在所谓开明的时代,对未来也同样是盲目的;国家偶然发现了制度,这确实是人类行为的结果,但不是人类设计的结果。

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

许多技术正在以最快的速度向前发展,用机器取代工厂和办公室里的工人,让股东变得更富有,让工人变得更贫穷,这些技术确实倾向于加剧财富分配方面现有的不平等。

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

我们正处在人类历史的开端。我们努力解决问题并不是没有道理的。但在未来还有数万年。我们的责任是尽我们所能,学习我们所能,改进解决方案,并把它们传递下去。

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