2015年考研英语翻译练习（text 10）
考研英语翻译注重考生的词汇、语法、逻辑和行文组织能力，同样也注重考生的知识面广度和深度。要想提高翻译能力不能纸上谈兵，最重要的还是要多练多总结。新东方在线小编分享翻译练习篇章及全译文解析，希望大家认真做题和理解。2015年考研英语翻译练习（text 10）
Do animals have rights?This is how the question is usually put.It sounds
like a useful，ground-clearing way to start.(71)Actually，it isnt，because it
assumes that there is an agreed account of human rights，which is something the
world does not have.
On one view of rights，to be sure，it necessarily follows that animals have
none.72)Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social
contract，as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements.Therefore，animals
cannot have rights.The idea of punishing a tiger that kills somebody is
absurd，for exactly the same reason，so is the idea that tigers have
ringhts.However，this is only one account，and by no means an uncontested one.It
denies rights not only to animals but also to some people—for instance，to
infants，the mentally incapable and future generations.In addition，it is unclear
what force a contract can have for people who never consented to it:how do you
reply to somebody who says“I dont like this contract?”
The point is this without agreement on the rights of people，arguing about
the rights of animals is fruitless.(73)It leads the discussion to extremes at
the outset:it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with
the consideration humans extend to other humans，or with no consideration at
all.This is a false choice.Better to start with another，more fundamental
question:is the way we treat animals a moral issue at all?
Many deny it.(74)Arguing from the view that humans are different from
animals in every relevant respect，extremists of this kind think that animals lie
outside the area of moral choice.Any regard for the suffering of animals is seen
as a mistake—a sentimental displacement of feeling that should properly be
directed to other humans.
This view，which holds that torturing a monkey is morally equivalent to
chopping wood，may seem bravely“logical.”In fact it is simply shallow:the ethical
equivalent of learning to crawl—is to weigh others interests against one s
own.This in turn requires sympathy and imagination:without which there is no
capacity for moral thought.To see an animal in pain is enough，for most，to engage
sympathy.(75)When that happens，it is not a mistake:it is mankinds instinct for
moral reasoning in action，an instinct that should be encouraged rather than
laughed at.
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