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人类
Humans
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。
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
认为人类具有非人类完全没有的心理特征的观点与进化论是不一致的。
Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
既然我们人类有更好的大脑,难道我们就没有责任保护我们的同伴免受我们自己的伤害吗?
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
你的车应该自己开。我们让人类开车,这对我来说太神奇了……汽车发明于计算机之前,这是一个错误。
The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
来自病毒的风险是一个没有答案的问题——直到你的器官多年来被移植到人类身上,这个问题才会得到答案。
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
我们必须质疑这样一个故事的逻辑:拥有一个无所不知、无所不能的上帝,他创造了有缺陷的人类,然后将自己的错误归咎于他们。
My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.
我的僵尸永远不会占领世界,因为我需要人类。人类是我最不喜欢的,他们才是真正的问题所在。
We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
我们人类真的很擅长形成群体来竞争,然后解散群体,沿着不同的路线重组它们,以不同的方式竞争。
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
人们认为计算机会做人类所做的一切。不好的。人与人之间是不同的,他们都是真的不同于电脑。
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
人类的进化不仅可以看作是人类战争的总和;它也被定义为人类思想的进化和人类意识的发展。
It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.
有人认为,在人类驯养的所有动物中,马对我们的历史是最重要的。几千年来,马是我们最可靠的交通工具。
It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.
这不仅仅是人类对太空的殖民,而是生命从地球移出,进入它的王国。生命的王国,当然,就是宇宙。
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I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we're nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.
我认为这个星球的未来取决于人类,而不是技术,我们已经拥有了知识——我们已经接近知识的终点。但就我们的认知而言,我们离终点还很远。我们在黑暗时代还有一只脚。
I am haunted by humans.
我被人类所困扰。
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
我们人类有数百万年的进化包袱,这让我们以一种致命的眼光看待竞争。
Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.
人类是不可思议的。无限不可预测的。这就是它们的危险之处。
I'd like to think humans have a stronger sense of justice than the random forces of nature do.
我认为人类的正义感比自然的随机力量更强。
I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.
我认为这仍然是人类最原始的恐惧:被吃掉。