陨落星辰第二季 第10期:与外星人的谈判

 　　I don't care what you wanted from us.

　　我不在乎你想从我们这里得到什么

　　There must have been a way to get it peacefully.

　　肯定能通过和平的办法得到

　　You didn't even try to talk to us before the attack.

　　你在攻击之前甚至没尝试和我们谈话

　　This was never a negotiation¹.

　　这绝不是谈判

　　That's why we'll never stop fighting you.

　　所以我们永远不会放弃抵抗

　　We have no patience for empty bravado².

　　我们没耐心虚张声势

　　So those are our alternatives -- Live as prisoners or die?

　　那么我们就这么多选择吗？要么为囚，要么就死

　　Why would you expect better from us than you do from yourselves?

　　你们自己都是这样做的，为什么还要我们仁慈一些

　　陨落星辰第二季

　　Because I look around this ship, at the technology that brought you from another world,

　　因为观察了一下这艘船，还将你从另一个世界带到这里的技术

　　and I want to believe that only an advanced species³ could have achieved so much.

　　我也想相信只有先进的种族才能达到这样的水平

　　But I would be wrong.

　　但是我也许错了

　　You wil lead your people to the neutral⁴ zone. No.

　　去把你的人带到保护区。不

　　Then the choice has been made.

　　这就这么定了

　　I would be careful about drawing too many lessons from the past.

　　我会很注意吸取过去的教训

　　Why is that?

　　什么这么说

　　Because our history has yet to be written.

　　因为我们的历史尚未定局

1 negotiation   

n.谈判，协商

参考例句：

• They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
• The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。

2 bravado   

n.虚张声势，故作勇敢，逞能

参考例句：

• Their behaviour was just sheer bravado. 他们的行为完全是虚张声势。
• He flourished the weapon in an attempt at bravado. 他挥舞武器意在虚张声势。

3 species   

n.物种，种群

参考例句：

• Are we the only thinking species in the whole of creation?我们是万物中惟一有思想的物种吗？
• This species of bird now exists only in Africa.这种鸟现在只存在于非洲。

4 neutral   

adj.中立的，不偏不倚的；中性的

参考例句：

• Behaviour is never culturally neutral.人的行为从来都受文化的影响。
• They have maintained a consistently neutral stance.他们一直持中立态度。