堕落是贯穿故事始终的一大主题：蚁群、丛林内的直接冲突、西方社会的侵蚀，无一例外。

Corruption is a theme that leaches into the story from the bottom up: the ants, the immediate jungle conflict, the invasiveness of Western society.

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一些社会心理学研究表明，我们的大脑还不能很好地适应保护我们免受逐渐侵蚀伤害的需要。

Some research in social psychology suggests that our brains are not well adapted to protect ourselves from gradually encroaching harms.

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一如隐藏在匿名之下的线上读者一样，身处覆盖物之下的他们自负心不断膨胀，社会习惯因而消失了，使得他们可以毫无掩饰的侵蚀着现有规章。

Like readers hiding behind pseudonyms online, self-importance inflates through the roof, social convention vanishes, and naked aggression rules.

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What better way to drive home the point that inhumanity and violence undermine the very foundations of society than to describe a situation in which a cosmic catastrophe results from human corruption and violence.

我们应该铭记在心的一点是,任何非人道的行为都会侵蚀人类社会存在的根基,而不是简单的描述一个人类因其堕落和血腥,招致的一场大灾难的场景。

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