“为什么你想要克隆人类,”威斯苏森问道,“而我们甚至还没有成功克隆动物呢?”
"Why would you ever want to clone humans," Westhusin asks, "when we're not even close to getting it worked out in animals yet?"
那麽,是什麽使人类避免成为这样野蛮的动物呢?
我就是不明白为什么人的生命还不如动物呢?
I just can't understand why a human's life is less than the animals'.
记者:你热爱动物多久了,为什么会热爱动物呢?
气候变化究竟是如何影响地球上的植物和动物呢?
人拥有许多权利,他们可以任意地使用这些权利,那动物呢?
Human beings have rights, and they can also use these rights randomly. Then how about the animals?
他问到,“斑马是带有白色条纹的黑色动物,还是带有黑色条纹的白色动物呢”?
He asked the question "Is a zebra a black animal with white stripes or a white animal with black stripes?"
是去帮助它们摆脱困境,还是(像第二张照片中的公牛那样),拿起相机拍下这些被困的动物呢?
whether to help these animals to escape from unpleasant situation, or (like a bull in the second photo), to abuse the situations and start shooting these captured animals?
而那些在几乎所有任务中都倾向于某一单侧的动物是怎样的呢?
And what of those animals who favour a specific side for almost all tasks?
那么,为什么动物会进化出一种似乎会危及它们自身的特性呢?
So why would animals evolve a characteristic that seems to endanger them?
如果这是真的,那么为什么像蛇、蜥蜴、乌龟和鳄鱼这样的冷血动物能在寒冷的冬天和炎热的夏天存活下来呢?
If true, though, why did cold-blooded animals such as snakes, lizards, turtles, and crocodiles survive the freezing winters and torrid summers?
如果一只动物不是攻击它的敌人或逃跑,而是攻击一株植物或灌木呢?
How about an animal that instead of fighting its enemy or running away, it attacks a plant or a bush?
但现在,如果动物在两个合适的栖息地之间表现出明确的选择呢?
But now, what about cases where an animal exhibits a clear choice between two suitable habitats?
这是如何适用于动物身上的呢?
那么关于动物的意识或对自我的意识、及它们的精神状态方面,所有这些东西告诉了我们什么信息呢?
So what does all this tell us about animals' consciousness or animals' awareness of themselves and their state of mind?
那么关于鸦科动物和黑猩猩的实验告诉了我们什么呢?
一天,卖供猫食用的肉的商贩对他说:“你为什么不停止为人类看病,转而为动物看病呢?我相信你对动物的了解比大多数兽医还要多。你写了一本关于猫的好书。我会把所有带着生病的猫狗的人都送到你这里来。”
One day, the cat's-meat-man said to him, "Why don't you stop being a doctor for people and become a doctor for animals instead? I'm sure that you know a lot about animals-more than most vets. You wrote a wonderful book about cats. I'd send all the people with sick dogs or cats to you."
为什么那位演讲者要选择这种两栖动物作为公众生物的代表呢?
Why does the speaker choose that amphibian as her representative of a public creature?
如果天空能影响天气,影响我种的植物和捕猎的动物,那为什么不能影响我自己呢?
If the sky can effect the weather, my crops and the animals I hunt, why can't it effect me?
还有,为什么把那些小动物的雕塑放在建筑物顶部呢?
Well, why were those small animal sculptures placed on the tops of the buildings?
所以,如果我们是普通的动物,那么这些道德是从哪里来的呢?
So, if we are essentially animals, where did these morals come from?
有没有什么情况下,动物活体实验和把动物用来做医学研究会被批准呢?
Is there any circumstance when animal experimentation or the use of animals in medical education would be warranted?
如果这个社会规范和造福社会的来源是真实的,那么为什么对其它动物群体而言是不真实的呢?
If this "social norm" or "community benefit" source was true, why wouldn't it hold true for other animal groups?
通过教育这个国家的人去热爱小动物,或许我们可以帮她们来更好地爱同类呢。
By teaching people in this country to love little animals, maybe we can help them to love their fellow human beings better.
那么人和动物到底是怎样区别彼此的呢?
尸体酒瓶上还围上极具英国特色的苏格兰方格呢短裙,动物头上还戴大礼帽。
Some of the animals have been featured on a kilt and a top hat.
在这些树丛中孤伶伶地站着的有二十多个动物,它们都在耐心地等着喝水呢。
Standing forlornly among the trees were scores of animals, patiently waiting to drink.
为什么我们对迷信的关注就这么少呢,为什么我们就要将动物本能屈居于自然科学之后呢?
Why should we give any less respect to those than we give to our animal instincts that underlies science?
为什么我们对迷信的关注就这么少呢,为什么我们就要将动物本能屈居于自然科学之后呢?
Why should we give any less respect to those than we give to our animal instincts that underlies science?
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