尽管她身心受伤,但是他们不可能使他堕落,因为她遵循着更高的人性的准则。
As much as she was harmed, physically and emotionally, they could never corrupt her, because she operated through higher principles of humanity.
所以休谟给出的道德准则是基于我们野兽般的人性。
后来有人问一幸存的该船官员:“妇女与儿童优先”是船长的规定还是航海的规矩。他答道,这是人性的准则。
When a surviving ship's officer was later asked whether "women and children first" was the captain's rule or the rule of the sea, he replied that it was the rule of human nature.
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