我本来可以在这个冷酷自私的世界成名。
I could have made a name for myself in this cold, selfish world.
全书开展了一个论战,其主打目标就是de Waal先生所认为的一种被扭曲的观点:认为人类都是无情冷酷自私,弱肉强食。
The book is a polemic, and its main target is what Mr DE Waal takes to be a distorted idea of human life as relentlessly selfish and ruthlessly competitive.
经过了同样长的时间之后,我们的社会变得越来越竞争激烈和自私冷酷,激励着我们的就是为了追逐财富,外在的东西,社会地位和所有物至上的文化观念。
Over that same period our society has become increasingly competitive and selfish, with a culture that encourages us to pursue wealth, appearance, status and possessions above all else.
Reopen no old wounds. Be as if you had never returned and looked in to me to see my laboring humilities, my few scrubbed pennies, hungry to grab, quick to deprive, sullen, unloved, mean-minded son of my flesh. Son! Son!"
不要再来碰我的伤疤,像你从前没有回来看过我似的,来看我的辛苦和谦卑,看我被掏得一干二净的钱袋,饿了抢,急了打,我亲生的没有感情,冷酷自私的儿子!“
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