A：Have you seen this?

你看過(guò)這則報(bào)道了嗎?

B：What?

什么?

A：They killed another hostage.

他們又殺了一個(gè)人質(zhì)。

B：Oh, how awful. What a terrible thing to do.

噢，太可怕了。這種事真令人發(fā)指。

A：I agree completely. I just don't understand what's wrong with them. Don't they have any humanity?

我完全同意。我真是搞不懂他們有什么毛病。他們一點(diǎn)人性都沒(méi)有嗎?

B：Well, maybe they've got a point. I mean, I suspect that they think the same about us.

哦，也許他們有他們的道理。我猜他們的想法就跟我們一樣。

A：Yes, but that doesn't make them right, does it? Just because they think so?

是，不過(guò)這并不表示他們是對(duì)的。他們只因?yàn)橄脒@么做，就可以這么做嗎?

B：I guess not. My view is that we should give in to their demands, so that innocent people can stop getting killed.

當(dāng)然不是。我的意思是，我們應(yīng)該接受他們的要求，這樣無(wú)辜的人就不會(huì)被殺了。

A：Come on, you can't be serious! We should never give in to terrorist's demands, otherwise where would we be?

拜托，你不是說(shuō)真的吧?我們絕對(duì)不能接受恐怖分子的要求，否則我們?cè)趺崔k?

B：Well, that's probably true, but I don't think we should be dogmatic about it. A colleague of mine was kidnapped once, so perhaps I have a different view of things.

嗯，這么說(shuō)也許沒(méi)錯(cuò)，不過(guò)我覺(jué)得我們不應(yīng)該固執(zhí)己見(jiàn)。我有一位同事被綁架過(guò)，所以我對(duì)于事情的看法可能不太一樣。

A：Really? What happened?

真的嗎?怎么回事?

B：Well, it was in the Balkans during the war. He was only held for three days, and then they simply released him. It was a case of mistaken identity, and they just let him go when they found out he was no use to them. It was lucky they didn't kill him.

嗯，那時(shí)候巴爾干半島在打仗。他只被挾持了3天，然后就被釋放了。他們認(rèn)錯(cuò)了人，所以等他們發(fā)現(xiàn)他沒(méi)什么用處時(shí)，就把他給放了。所幸他們沒(méi)有殺了他。

A：Oh, sure.

噢，是啊。