01 Righteous Indignation义愤

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这是刊登在《经济学家》（The Economist）杂志上的一篇科技类说明文。文中主要论述猴子的公平感——像人一样，猴子对不公平待遇也有怨恨。一开始文章做了一个类比，讲人的公平意识，然后根据这个类比重点讲述猴子的公平意识。第一段以人为类比，人对于不公平待遇的反应是非常愤怒，接着指出研究者最近通过对卷尾猴的分组实验证明这不仅仅是人类的特性，也是猴子的特性。这是研究结论。后面对有关实验的各个方面进行叙述：第二段讲实验对象的选定；第三段讲实验的具体内容。第四段与第一段相呼应，并指出卷尾猴的公平感在进化上的起源还无法确定。

Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behavior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature,suggests that it“all too monkey”, as well.

The researchers studied the behavior of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food tardily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males. Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan's and Dr. de Waal's study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their behavior became markedly different.

In the world of capuchins grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either tossed her own token at the researcher or out of the chamber, or refused to accept the slice of cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to reduce resentment in a female capuchin.

The researches suggest that capuchin monkeys, like humans, are guided by social emotions. In the wild, they are a co-operative, group-living species. Such co-operation is likely to be stable only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of righteous indignation，it seems, are not the preserve of people alone. Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.

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The researchers suggest that capuchin monkeys, 1 humans, are guided by social emotions. In the wild, they are a co-operative, group-living species. Such co-operation is likely to be stable only 2 each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of righteous indignation, it 3 , are not the preserve of people alone. Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear 4 other members of the group. However, 5 such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems 6 the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.

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（1）Textual Translation（篇章翻译）

研究者们对雌性棕色卷尾猴的行为进行了研究。它们看起来很可爱，性格温顺，善于合作，乐于分享食物。最重要的是，就像人类女性们一样，它们往往比雄性更关注“商品和服务”价值。这些特性使它们成为布鲁斯南博士和德·瓦尔博士理想的研究对象。研究者们花了两年的时间教这些猴子用代币换取食物。正常情况下，猴子很愿意用几块石头换几片黄瓜。但是，当两个猴子被安置在隔开但相邻的两个房间里、能够互相看见对方用石头换回来什么东西时，猴子的行为就会变得明显不同。

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（2）Sentence Translation（句子翻译）

①子游曰：“丧致乎哀而止。”

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②子游曰：“吾友张也为难能也，然而未仁。”

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③曾子曰：“堂堂乎张也，难与并为仁矣。”

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参考译文

(1) The researchers studied the behavior of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food tardily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males. Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan's and Dr. de Waal's study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their behavior became markedly different.

(2) ①Zi You said, “When Handling funeral affairs, so long as you fully express your sorrow, that's enough.”

②Zi You said, “My friend Zhang can be reckoned an outstanding person. But even he himself hasn't become a person of humanity.”

③Zeng Zi said, “Zhang bears a grandeur appearance. But it's difficult for anyone to be a man with humanity together with him.”

Emulation

美文自己写得出——学生仿写

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