如果他提出,黑人作为人类的一种,是缺乏道德和自控的,或者说他们寄生于他人的辛劳工作之上,他将遭到责骂。
He would court opprobrium if he were to argue that, as a class of human beings, they lack morals or self-control, or to claim that they exist parasitically on the hard work of others.
如果用来比喻人类与战争的关系,“上瘾”显得那么的苍白无力,也有失准确,“寄生”要更加切中要害一些,甚至说成“掠夺”也不为过。
"Addiction" provides only a pallid and imprecise analogy for the human relationship to war; parasitism — or even predation — is more to the point.
她后来宣布说所有从槲寄生下经过的人将不会受到伤害,而会得到一个象征爱情的吻。
She later proclaimed that all who pass under the plant would have no harm come to them, only a kiss, a token of love.
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