Gentling means training it to accept the human attention needed for care and grooming.

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If I wanted you to care about an animal, I would do well to describe it as if it were human.

如果我想你关心动物，我就把它当成人一样描述。

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It implies that human life is somehow sacred and deserving of special care and protection.

它暗示了人类的生命是神圣的,他值得特殊的关怀和保护。

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Except it seems to me it's a further fact about human psychology that we care more about being short-changed than we do about being, as we might put it, overcompensated.

只不过对我来说,它似乎是更进一步的人类心理学,即我们对于别人少找钱会更在意,而不会在意，过度补偿。

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