中级口译快速训练:愚蠢的小聪明

　　In art and literature and religion, some men have shown a sublimity of feeling which makes the species worth preserving. Is all this to end in trivial horror because so few are able to think of Man rather than of this or that group of men? Is our race so destitute of wisdom, so incapable of impartial love, so blind even to the simplest dictates of self-preservation, 要用灭绝地球上的所有生命来最后证明它愚蠢的小聪明.

　　本期答案：The last proof of its silly cleverness is to be the extermination of all life on our planet.

　　本句节选自《Shall we choose death ?》