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星期一
这个长头发的新生物真碍事。它总是在我周围晃悠，跟着我走来走去。我不喜欢这样，也不习惯有谁陪在我身边。我希望它老老实实地和其他动物待在一起。今天阴天，刮东风，感觉我们要有雨了……我们？这个词，我是从哪儿学来的？对，想起来了——是新生物用的。
Monday
This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this；I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals. Cloudy today, wind in the east；think we shall have rain……Where did I get that word?……I remember now—the new creature uses it.
最好有个好开头，别记乱了。某种本能告诉我，有朝一日这些记录对于历史研究者会很重要。因为我觉得自己是一个实验品，我感觉就是个实验品，不会有人感觉比我更像，所以我慢慢开始相信，这就是我——实验品；只是个实验品而已。
It will be best to start right and not let the record get confused, for some instinct tells me that these details are going to be important to the historian some day. For I feel like an experiment, I feel exactly like an experiment；it would be impossible for a person to feel more like an experiment than I do, and so I am coming to feel convinced that that is what I AM—an experiment；just an experiment, and nothing more.
如果我是一个实验品，我就是实验的全部吗？不，我想我不是全部，我应该是实验的主要部分，当然还有其他部分，而且其他部分也有各自的责任和作用。
Then if I am an experiment, am I the whole of it?No, I think not；I think the rest of it is part of it. I am the main part of it, but I think the rest of it has its share in the matter.
那么我的地位牢固吗？或者我得小心行事，想办法保住位置？可能是后者吧。某种本能告诉我，高人一等的代价就是要一直警惕。（我想，对于我这么一个年轻的生命来说，这是一句良言。）
Is my position assured, or do I have to watch it and take care of it?The latter, perhaps. Some instinct tells me that eternal vigilance is the price of supremacy.（That is a good phrase, I think, for one so young.）
