我们都知道，灾害无情，但我们人类却是有情的。
We all know that disasters have no emotions, but we humans do.
换句话说，世界的变化一开始会难以适应，但我们人类会学会适应。
In other words, when the world changes we can struggle at first but we humans learn to cope.
但我们人类生活在经文的这一边，我们抬头看，我们阅读上帝的著作，我们需要读经文。
But we humans we live on this side of scripture, and we look up and we read the writings of God, and so we need scripture to read things.
我们稍后会回到这些议题上，但我想谈谈罗宾·邓巴的理论——他是牛津大学的人类学家。
We'll come back to these issues in a minute, but I'd like to say something about the theories of Robin Dunbar—an anthropologist at Oxford University.
我并不想成为这场聚会上的讨厌鬼，但我认为重要的是，要问清楚神经科学是否揭示了我们从人类学等学科中已知之外的东西。
Not to be the skunk at this party, but I think it's important to ask whether neuroscience reveals anything more than we already know from anthropology.
尽管人类已经登陆月球，但我们对月球仍然知之甚少。
We still know little about the Moon although men have landed on it.
但我们作为人类没有这样的选择。
但我们从来不知道，这项结果用在人类身上，好使不好使。
But we never know how well it's going to hold up with humans.
但我们知道，邪恶是人类生存的一种状况。
And yet we know that evil is a condition of human existence.
目前有一个并非基于动物研究的三聚氰胺的数额限值，但我们不能确定，即使是这少量的数额是否对人类来说就是安全的，尤其是经过长年累月的摄取三聚氰胺。
There is a limit that is not based on animal studies, but we can't be certain that even the small amount is safe in humans, especially if consumption of the chemical goes on for years.
人类的观念已大为开明，但我们并未全面评估和预料人们可以把事情弄得多复杂。
Humanity's views have expanded greatly, but we did notthoroughly assess and anticipate how complex people can make things.
但我们现在还无法得知科技灾难的真正后果，抑或是人类受辐射危害的程度，也许几周后仍无法得知。
But we don't yet know, and may not know for weeks to come, the true magnitude of the technical problems or the degree of human exposure to radiation.
但我们对它们有爱，这是人类生活很重要的元素。
But we have a kind of love for them, which is a very important element of human life.
但我们没有预料到人类历史上单日最大跌幅。
We didn't imagine the largest one-day drop in the history of mankind.
但我和我的大多数同事们从不认为我们是为了受难的人类而深入火线。
But nor did I suppose that I, or more than a tiny fraction of my colleagues, put ourselves in the line of fire in the cause of suffering humanity.
他们有可能是来参观巨石阵的。但我们知道，数千年来，人类经过长途跋涉到达某地的目的，通常是要从事贸易和探险活动。
'it's possible they were coming to visit Stonehenge but we know people had been travelling great distances for thousands of years for trade and exploration.'
其实不然；我们虽然有了这一切安全措施，但我们或许是人类文明史上最不安全的国民。
But no; with all this "security," we are perhaps the most insecure nation in the history of civilized man.
我们人类喜欢把自己视为多少有点超乎于自然世界之外的高等动物，但我们也有一个生物钟。
We humans like to think of ourselves as somehow outside the natural world, but we have a circadian clock as well.
我们可以有许多的文化，但我们只有一个人类大家庭。
我们可以有许多的文化，但我们只有一个人类大家庭。
但我们不能把这些习惯一股脑儿地归到人类心理的复杂性上面，因为表现出这些习惯的不只是人类。
But we can't trace these habits merely to the complexities of the human psyche, because it's not just humans who exhibit them.
但我始终不相信，我认为人类是我们的好朋友，而那天我目睹了那一切。
But I still do not believe, I believe that human beings are our friends, but that day I witnessed all that.
当然，这也并非《牛津英语大词典》的过错。但我们想用别的词来代替couchpotato，毕竟土豆天生就对人类健康有益。
Of course it is not the Oxford English Dictionary's fault but we want to use another term than couch potato because potatoes are inherently healthy.
但我很欣赏它对我们人类所做的贡献。
But I am very appreciated its contribution to our human beings.
迄今为止，人类并未取得成功，但我们再也失败不起了。
但我想对那些人说：没错，有些野生动物的确很危险，但它们一般多在远离人类的地方，所以我们不用害怕。
But I want to say to those people: yes, some wild animals is dangerous, but they are generally more away from the humans, so we don't have to fear.
但我想对那些人说：没错，有些野生动物的确很危险，但它们一般多在远离人类的地方，所以我们不用害怕。
But I want to say to those people: yes, some wild animals is dangerous, but they are generally more away from the humans, so we don't have to fear.
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