当小猩猩用他的方式到房顶上时，让他下来的通常方式——呼喊、斥责、给食物——很少奏效。

When the chimp would make his way to the roof of the house, ordinary strategies for bringing him down-calling, scolding, offers of food-would rarely work.

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她试着让他平静下来，却似乎火上浇油了。

She tried calming him down but it seemed to be having the opposite effect.

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我们必须给他时间让他冷静下来。

We've got to give him some time to cool off.

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He's not about to let mankind off the hook with Judgment Day.

他并不打算让人类从审判日的挂钩上下来。

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But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability ; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.

但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能,不能让孩子活下来;,以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。

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