I'm glad to see you out of doors again, Mr Lockwood, 'he said, in reply to my greeting;' from selfish motives partly: I don't think I could readily supply your loss in this desolation.

“我很高兴看见你又出门了，洛克乌德先生，”他说，回答我的招呼。“一部分是出于自私的动机：我不以为我能弥补你在这荒凉地方的损失。”

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The book is a polemic, and its main target is what Mr DE Waal takes to be a distorted idea of human life as relentlessly selfish and ruthlessly competitive.

全书开展了一个论战，其主打目标就是de Waal先生所认为的一种被扭曲的观点：认为人类都是无情冷酷自私，弱肉强食。

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This is interesting in as much as it shows how such thinking has changed over the years, but her real purpose seems to be to create doubt in the reader's mind about whether selection at the level of the gene is the only mechanism of evolution, which is what Mr Dawkins and his fellow selfish-geners believe.

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