How can we stand in the light of discovery and not act?

我们怎么能站在发明面前却无所作为
What's so great about discovery?

发明有什么好的
It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores.

那是暴力那是狂扎乱捅的行为到处留疤
What you call discovery...

你所谓的发明
I call the rape of the natural world.

我称之为对自然世界的强奸
The question is, how can you know anything about an extinct ecosystem?

问题是你怎么了解一种已灭绝的生态系统
And therefore, how could you ever assume that you can control it?

因此你又怎能设想你可以控制
You have plants in this building that are poisonous.

你这座楼里摆了有毒的植物
You picked them because they look good...

你选择它们仅仅是因为它们好看
but these are aggressive living things that have no idea...

但它们都是些有侵略性的生物
what century they're in, and they'll defend themselves...

我们不知道它们何时存在如有必要会用何种
violently, if necessary.

暴力手段保护自己