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Once in a while, after a long and patient chase, he would catch a sparrow or a small wild dog or perhaps a rabbit.
運氣不錯時，經一番漫長而耐心的追逐，他能抓到一只松鼠、小野狗或老鼠什么的，開開葷。
These he would eat raw for he had never discovered that food tasted better when it was cooked.
他吃什么都生吞活剝，因為他還未發現經火烤過的食物味道要好一些。
During the hours of day, this primitive human being prowled about looking for things to eat.
白天，這些原始人在莽莽林海中四處潛行，尋找可吃的東西。
When night descended upon the earth, he hid his wife and his children in a hollow tree or behind some heavy boulders,
一俟黑暗降臨大地，他便把自己的妻女藏進空樹干或巨石后面。
for he was surrounded on all sides by ferocious animals
兇猛危險的野獸遍布他的四周，
and when it was dark these animals began to prowl about, looking for something to eat for their mates and their own young, and they liked the taste of human beings.
它們慣于在夜間悄悄活動，為它們的配偶和幼仔尋找食物。它們很喜歡人肉的味道。
It was a world where you must either eat or be eaten, and life was very unhappy because it was full of fear and misery.
這是一個你要么吃野獸，要么被野獸吃的世界，人類早期的生活非常悲慘，充滿了恐懼和痛苦。
In summer, man was exposed to the scorching rays of the sun,
夏天，人類被烈日炙烤；
and during the winter his children would freeze to death in his arms.
冬天，他的孩子凍死在自己懷里。
When such a creature hurt itself, (and hunting animals are forever breaking their bones or spraining their ankles) he had no one to take care of him and he must die a horrible death.
當他不小心弄傷了自己（追獵野獸是很容易摔斷骨頭或者扭傷腳踝的），沒人可以照顧他，只能在驚恐和疼痛中自生自滅。
Like many of the animals who fill the zoo with their strange noises, early man liked to jabber.
就像動物園會充斥著動物們林林總總、稀奇古怪的叫聲一樣，早期的人類也喜歡發出急促不清的怪叫。
That is to say, he endlessly repeated the same unintelligible gibberish because it pleased him to hear the sound of his voice.
也就是說，他不斷地重復著一些相同的胡言亂語，因為他喜歡聽見自己的聲音。
