I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

  • -- Jim Fowler 吉姆·福勒

我不认为我们会拯救任何东西,如果我们到处谈论拯救植物和动物;我们必须把它转化为对我们有利的东西。

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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.

重要的是,我们现在有了对各种动物、植物、微生物以及人类进行测序的工具。我们还没有完成人类序列并不重要。

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

他们把我们的母亲——地球——据为己有,把邻居们与她隔开,用他们的房屋和垃圾玷污她。

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

无论世界多么分裂,无论国家之间的竞争多么激烈,我们每天都变得更加相互依赖,这是一个不可阻挡的事实。

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

你在挽回面子的同时,也在输掉自己的屁股。

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

他植树是为了造福下一代。