A：Have you seen this?

你看过这则报道了吗?

B：What?

什么?

A：They killed another hostage.

他们又杀了一个人质。

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

噢，太可怕了。这种事真令人发指。

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。我真是搞不懂他们有什么毛病。他们一点人性都没有吗?

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

哦，也许他们有他们的道理。我猜他们的想法就跟我们一样。

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

是，不过这并不表示他们是对的。他们只因为想这么做，就可以这么做吗?

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

当然不是。我的意思是，我们应该接受他们的要求，这样无辜的人就不会被杀了。

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

拜托，你不是说真的吧?我们绝对不能接受恐怖分子的要求，否则我们怎么办?

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，这么说也许没错，不过我觉得我们不应该固执己见。我有一位同事被绑架过，所以我对于事情的看法可能不太一样。

A：Really? What happened?

真的吗?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，那时候巴尔干半岛在打仗。他只被挟持了3天，然后就被释放了。他们认错了人，所以等他们发现他没什么用处时，就把他给放了。所幸他们没有杀了他。

A：Oh, sure.

噢，是啊。