6.The Damned Human Race(507)

Sixth grade rewrite

The Damned Human Race

【1】Mark Twain, a famous American writer, once thought about how humans behave compared to animals. He felt a bit sad when he saw that animals might be better than humans in some ways. He thought that maybe humans didn't evolve from animals, but animals got better by becoming different from humans.

【2】Twain used a scientific method to test his ideas. He did experiments at the London Zoo over many months. One of his experiments was about a buffalo hunt. Hunters killed many buffaloes but only ate a little bit and left the rest to rot. Twain wondered if an anaconda would do the same.

【3】He put young calves in the anaconda's cage. The snake ate one calf and then seemed happy, not bothering the others. Twain did this with other anacondas and got the same result. He thought that anacondas were not cruel like humans.

【4】Twain also noticed that rich people who have more money than they need still want more and sometimes cheat to get it. He gave animals the chance to store food, but they only took what they needed for winter. This made him think that humans are greedy, but animals are not.

【5】During his experiments, Twain realized that humans are the only animals that hold onto insults and seek revenge. Other animals don't do this. He also noticed that animals don't have the same bad behaviors that humans do, like indecency and vulgarity.

【6】Twain thought that humans are the only animals that laugh, but he found out that monkeys and a bird called the laughing jackass also laugh. He realized that humans are the only animals that blush.

【7】He talked about how humans have done terrible things throughout history, like hurting prisoners and starting wars. He said that humans are the only animals that fight in wars and take land from others by force.

【8】Twain thought that humans are the only animals that call themselves patriots and divide themselves into countries. They are also the only animals that have religions and say they love their neighbors but hurt them if their beliefs are different.

【9】He said that humans claim to be reasoning animals, but his experiments showed that they are not. He thought that humans are foolish and can't learn simple things that animals can.

【10】Twain did an experiment with animals and humans. He put different animals together and they lived peacefully. But when he put different humans together, they argued over a small religious detail and fought until none were alive.

【11】In the end, Twain thought that humans might have become worse from some far ancestor, like a tiny creature in a drop of water, through many stages of life, until they became humans. He thought that humans are at the bottom stage of development and that there is nothing below us.

六年级改写

可恶的人类

【1】美国著名作家马克·吐温曾经思考过与动物相比人类的行为是怎样的。当他看到动物在某些方面可能比人类更好时，他感到有点难过。他认为，也许人类不是从动物进化而来的，而是动物通过与人类不同而变得更好。

【2】吐温用科学的方法来检验他的想法。他在伦敦动物园做了好几个月的实验。他的一个实验是关于水牛狩猎的。猎人杀死了许多水牛，但只吃了一小部分，剩下的就腐烂了。吐温不知道水蟒是否也会这样做。

【3】他把幼崽放进水蟒的笼子里。蛇吃了一头小牛，然后看起来很高兴，没有打扰其他的。吐温用其他的水蟒做了同样的实验，得到了同样的结果。他认为水蟒不像人类那样残忍。

【4】马克·吐温还注意到，那些有钱超过他们所需的人仍然想要更多的钱，有时还会通过欺骗来获得。他给了动物储存食物的机会，但它们只拿走过冬所需的食物。这使他认为人类是贪婪的，但动物不是。

【5】在他的实验中，吐温意识到人类是唯一一种对侮辱耿耿于怀并寻求报复的动物。其他动物不会这样做。他还注意到，动物没有人类那样的不良行为，比如不雅和粗俗。

【6】吐温认为人类是唯一会笑的动物，但他发现猴子和一种叫笑驴的鸟也会笑。他意识到人类是唯一会脸红的动物。

【7】他谈到了人类在历史上是如何做可怕的事情的，比如伤害囚犯和发动战争。他说人类是唯一在战争中战斗，用武力从别人手中夺取土地的动物。

【8】吐温认为人类是唯一一种自称爱国者并把自己划分为国家的动物。他们也是唯一有宗教信仰的动物，他们说他们爱他们的邻居，但如果他们的信仰不同，他们会伤害他们。

【9】他说人类自称是有推理能力的动物，但他的实验表明人类并非如此。他认为人类是愚蠢的，不能像动物那样学习简单的东西。

【10】吐温用动物和人做了一个实验。他把不同的动物放在一起，让它们和平相处。但当他把不同的人放在一起时，他们为了一个小小的宗教细节而争吵，直到一个人都没活下来。

【11】最后，马克·吐温认为，人类可能从某个遥远的祖先开始，就像一滴水中的小生物一样，经历了生命的许多阶段，才变成了人类。他认为人类处于发展的最底层，在我们之下没有任何东西。