The point is this: without agreement on the rights of people

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The point is this: without agreement on the rights of people, arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless. It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all. This is a false choice. Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice. Any regard for the suffering of animals is seen as a mistake—a sentimental displacement of feeling that should properly be directed to other her humans. But the most elementary form of moral reasoning is to weigh others’ interests against one’s own. To see an animal in pain is enough, for most, to engage sympathy. When that happens, it is not a mistake, it is mankind’s instinct for moral reasoning in action, an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at.
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正确答案:
问题是:如对人的权利没有一致的意见,去争论动物的权利是没有结果的。只会一开始就把讨论引向极端。它使人们认为应这样对待动物:要么像对人类自身一样关切体谅,要么对它们冷漠无情。这是一种错误的选择。有人认为从人与动物在各相关方面都不同,持这种极端看法的人会认为对待动物无须考虑道德问题。任何对动物的遭遇的关心都被认为是错误的,是把自己的感情放错了地方,因为这种感情应当放到其他人身上。但是道德观的最基本一条是将心比心。对大多数人来说,看到动物受罪足以引起人的同情。这种反应并不是错误,而是人用道德观念进行推理的本能在起作用。这种本能应当得到鼓励而不应遭到嘲笑。
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【翻译要点】
本题涉及到词类转换,词类转换主要是名词。相对说来,英语依靠名词组句要比汉语多一点,而汉语是通过动词的集结来表达的。这样在翻译中,就有一个转换的问题。该题第四句中提到extremists(极端分子),如不读原文,根本弄不懂“极端分子”指什么。显然是误译。从第二句提到的It leads the discussion to extremes,可知extremists of this kind是指“持这类极端观点的人”,并不是“极端分子”。英语中有用表示身份的名词来表达一个人的动作的特点,因此此处extremists不宜译成名词,而应译成动作意义:有人认为人与动物在各相关方面都不同,持这种极端看法就会认为对待动物无须考虑道德问题。
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