射杀一头能干活的大象可是件非常严重的事——相当于毁掉一台昂贵的重型机械——很明显，应该尽力避免此类事情的发生。

It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant — it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery — and obviously one ought not to do it if it can possibly be avoided.

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如果我们有一台可以复制大象行为或海豚行为的机器，那么则可以期待有可以复制出人类思想的类似机器。

If we had a machine that could duplicate elephant or dolphin behavior, we would expect that a similar machine could duplicate human thought.

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