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Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a large number of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called "insecticides," but "biocides."
誰能相信在地表投放如此大量的毒藥不會(huì)危害別的生命呢？它們不應(yīng)該叫“殺蟲劑'而應(yīng)該叫作“殺生劑”。
The whole process of spraying seems caught up in an endless spiral. This has happened because insects, in Darwin's principle of the survival of the fittest, have evolved super races immune to the particular insecticide used, hence a deadlier one has always to be developed and then a deadlier one than that. It has happened also because destructive insects often undergo a "flare-back," or resurgence, after spraying, in numbers greater than before. Thus the chemical war is never won, and all life is caught in its violent crossfire.
噴灑化學(xué)物質(zhì)的過程似乎陷入了一個(gè)沒有盡頭的螺旋中。之所以會(huì)這樣是因?yàn)楦鶕?jù)達(dá)爾文的適者生存理論，昆蟲已經(jīng)進(jìn)化成高級(jí)物種了，它們對(duì)已使用的各種殺蟲劑具有免疫力。因此，人們必須發(fā)明更加致命的化學(xué)藥品，然后是比這些還要致命的。這也是因?yàn)閲姙⒒瘜W(xué)品后，具有破壞性的昆蟲經(jīng)常進(jìn)行“反擊”或者復(fù)活，數(shù)量變得比以前更多。因此，化學(xué)物質(zhì)之戰(zhàn)從未取勝，所有的生命都會(huì)在激烈的交火中遭殃。
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind? Yet this is precisely what we have done.
聰明的人類怎么可以僅僅為了控制少數(shù)不為人類所需的物種，就去污染整個(gè)環(huán)境，甚至給自己造成疾病和死亡的威脅呢？然而，這恰恰就是我們所做的。
All this is not to say there is no insect problem and no need of control. I am saying, rather, that control must be geared to realities, and that the methods employed must be such that they do not destroy us along with the insects.
這一切并不是說沒有害蟲問題，沒有控制的必要。我的意思是，對(duì)昆蟲的控制必須符合現(xiàn)實(shí)，使用的方法必須保證不會(huì)將我們和昆蟲一起毀滅掉。
Under primitive agricultural conditions the farmer had few insect problems. Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape and holds the species within bounds by the built-in checks and balances.
在原始農(nóng)業(yè)的條件下，農(nóng)民很少遇到蟲害問題。自然賦予土地多樣性，通過內(nèi)部的控制和平衡把物種控制在有限的范圍內(nèi)。
