翻译练习：Can Humanity Grow Up？（1）

Can Humanity Grow Up?

人类会成长起来吗？

With rapid globalization and technological innovation have come profound new risks not just to inpiduals and countries, but to humanity's survival. The current stage in our history demands an entirely new ethical perspective, one that requires an ablility to think in species-level terms.

随着快速全球化与技术创新，随之而来的巨大风险不仅仅针对个人与国家，而且是针对人类的生存。在我们历史的当前阶段需要一个全新的道德观，一个需要能从物种层面思考的道德观。

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores just how tightly interwoven humanity has become.

新冠大流行强调了如今人类紧密交织的程度是如此之深。

This should not be particularly surprising. The history of pandemics tracks our unification as a species. The Black Death traveled on new trade routes forged between Europe and Asia in the Middle Ages. Smallpox crossed the Atlantic Ocean with the Europeans, devastating the Americas. And the 1918 influenza pandemic reached six continents in just months, owing to technological advances in moving goods and people. Each time humanity takes bold steps toward deeper integration, disease follows.

这其实没有什么好特别惊讶的。大流行病的历史紧随着我们作为一个物种的一体化。在中世纪，黑死病沿着欧洲与亚洲新形成的贸易路线传播。天花随着欧洲人跨越了大西洋，严重破坏了美洲地区。而由于货运与客运技术的进步，1918流行性感冒数月就抵达了六大洲。每次人类往融合迈出大胆的脚步，疾病随之。

This has yielded profound benefits. We pool our knowledge, innovation, and technology. We cooperate across vast traditions of each other's cultures. We cooperate across vast distances, working together on projects too great for any inpidual, or country, to complete on their own - such as eradicating smallpox from the face of the Earth.

融合带来了巨大的利益。我们在知识、创新和技术上集思广益。我们与其他文化的相互分享丰富的传统习惯。我们跨越万里进行合作，携手攻克任何个人或国家都无法独自完成的难题——例如从地球表面根除了天花。