If you're a bacterium your whole life is about swimming to nutrients and running away from things that would kill you.

假如你是一个细菌,你的一生将会在追逐养分,和逃避敌害中度过

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If You would deal thus with me, kill me rather, I beg You, and let me see no more of my wretchedness!"

如果您这样对待我，还不如杀了我，我请求您，不要再让我如此的可怜“

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You would, to avoid the horrors of genocide, you would crash into the five and kill them?

为了避免骇人听闻的种族灭绝，你打算直接开上去把这五个人撞死吗？

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And, so, you had this rather odd situation where instead of dogs guarding their masters or mistresses, you had the masters and mistresses guarding the dogs against people who would take the dogs and, unfortunately, kill them and eat them.

真是因为如此,产生了一种奇怪的现象,通常情况下是狗来守护主人的,而现在呢,主人必须时时刻刻保护自己的狗,以免被人抓去宰了吃

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