虽然一只孤独的重达800磅的大猩猩有一个单独的房间,此事很少被提及。
Although there is a separate room for one lone 800-pound gorilla, it was rarely mentioned.
在文明到来之前,这种常态性的孤独非常罕见(因为单独的个体易被捕食),进化就把它忽略了。
Before civilisation intervened, such chronic loneliness would have been so rare (because isolated individuals are so vulnerable to predation) that evolution would have ignored it.
它于是具有了一种单独的情感、孤独的存在以及面孔,但这一切都被吞噬了。
A single emotion, a single creature, a single face, but all is devoured.
We could say,look,when Socrates dies, he's dying alone in the sense that he's doing it by himself.
我们能说,当苏格拉底死的时候,他孤独而死的意思是,死亡是他单独完成的。
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