He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

It's a fairly recent understanding of Maybe you can just give us a little time line of what human rights means.

这是一个新近的理解,也许你可以先给我们一个时间线索,讲讲人权含义的演变。

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And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

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Some human rights groups and Roma leaders say the attacks come at a time when right-wing extremists are searching for scapegoats for Hungary's current economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

But the shifts in place and time, and in many I would say,throughout most human beings, there is a consciousness of both.

但是这会随着时间的推移和地点的变化而改变,而且就大多数而言,我要强调,绝大多数人,对这两者都会有一些意识

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But over a lifetime, I think I would think almost a complete majority here would agree that they would rather be a human with higher pleasure than be that rat with intense pleasure for a momentary period of time.

但是就一生而言,我觉得，在场绝大部分人都会同意,他们更愿意做拥有更高级快乐的人,而不是只图一时快乐，做那只享受一时快感的鼠。

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It's happened over the course of millions of years of human evolution, but it's happened also in a relatively recent time frame when we think about the American diet and what people are eating, but also the world diet of course.

它们发生在人类数百万年的演化历程中,在近现代,当我们考虑美国人的食谱,当然也包括全世界的食谱,同样在发生着这些变革

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Human rights seems like such a sort of time immemorial concept.

人权听起来就像是一个如此,久远的概念。

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