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Were as intelligent as we are.
已经具备和我们同样的智力水平。
They just didn’t know as much.
只是他们知识不多。　　
John’s man would have learned as the race learned.
John说的那个人可以与人类文明同步学习。 　　
In fact, if he had an inquiring mind.
事实上，如果他喜欢刨根问底。　　
His knowledge might be astonishing.
他的知识储备将会是惊人的。 　　
If you do write that, let me have a look at it.
如果你要写书，我有兴趣看看。 　　
I’m sure you’ll make some anthropological boners.
我保证你会掀起一股人类学的热潮的。 　　
It’s a deal.
就这么定了。　　
What would keep him alive?
他为什么会活那么久? 　　
What does the biologist say?
听听生物学家怎么说? 　　
Cigarettes.
香烟。 　　
And ice cream.
和冰激凌。 　　
All right, all right, I’ll play.
好，好，我想想。 　　
All right, um, in science fiction terms.
嗯，从科幻角度说。 　　
I would say.
我觉得是。 　　
Perfect regeneration of the body’s cells.
完美的人体细胞再生功能。 　　
Especially in the vital organs.
特别是重要器官。 　　
Actually, the human body appears designed.
事实上，人体原本被设计成。　　
To live about 190 years.
能活到190岁左右。 　　
Most of us just die of slow poisoning.
我们大多数人死于慢性中毒。
妙语佳句
1.intelligent
智能的；聪明的；理解力强的
While on the road you will be able to email or SMS in questions to it and get back immediate intelligent answers.
同时在路上你将能够发电子邮件或短信来和它讨论问题并且立即得到聪明的回答。
2.inquiring
adj. 询问的；打听的；爱追究的
v. 调查（inquire的ing形式）；打听
Inquiring why he did so, his guest explained that he was blowing on the stew to cool it down.
又询问他为什么这样做，他的客人解释说，对着炖菜吹可以使热菜凉下来。
3.astonishing
adj. 惊人的；令人惊讶的
v. 使…惊讶；使…诧异（astonish的ing形式）
If it was capable of some astonishing progress, there was another sense in which it had to run very hard just to stay on the spot.
如果它是有能力推动一些惊人的进步，在另一种意义上，它就不得不非常辛苦的奔跑而不是仅仅停留在原地。
4.keep alive
点火电极；保持生机；使……活着
One also regrets that not much is done in India to keep alive the philosophy and spirit of Mahatma Gandhi, one of Asia’s few twentieth-century universal thinkers.
有人或许会很遗憾，没有做更多的事情让圣雄甘地——亚洲二十世纪少有的普世思想家之一——的哲学和精神在印度保持活力。
5.organs
器官；机构；风琴（organ的复数）
Deputies to the People's Congresses have the right to address inquiries to state organs.
人民代表大会代表有权向国家机关提出质询。
考考你 (请翻译)
1.John说的那个人可以与人类文明同步学习。 　
2.我们大多数人死于慢性中毒。
上期参考答案
1.there’s no anatomical difference.
2.we think men of the upper paleolithic.