It was a human anthill that an invading sea had caught by surprise!

这简直是一个受海水入侵惊吓的蚁窝！

A Type 3 civilization might feel about as like we feel about the bacteria living on the anthill.

而一个真正的3型文明对我们的感觉可能就和我们对蚁丘上的细菌的感觉一样。

From the Leyden house down to Five Points, the street seethed with activity, the activity of an anthill just destroyed.

从莱顿家的房子到五点镇段大街上全是一片纷纷攘攘，像个崩塌了蚁丘似的。

I lowered my elbow to the ground and said, " You go." The ant ran off to his life at the anthill.

我把手肘放到地上，说道：“你走吧。”蚁跑到蚁丘处逃命。

His foot knocks against a two-foot anthill, knocks down the dwelling place of the ants, and scatters the ants and their eggs far and wide.

他的一个两英尺高的蚁丘上， 倒了蚁的栖息地， 把蚁和蚁的卵撒得四散。

If you go down to an anthill, you go down to the ants and say, " I bring you trinkets; I bring you bees; take me to your ant queen; I give you nuclear energy."

就像如果你进了一个蚁穴，你对蚁说，“我能给你们带些小玩意儿，我能给你们蜜蜂，请带我去见你们的蚁后，我还能给你们核能。”

As an analogy, humans are more intelligent and competent than ants, ? and if we want to build a hydroelectric dam where there happens to be an anthill, there may no malevolence involved, but, well... too bad for the ants.

打个比方，比蚁更聪明、更能干，如果我们想有蚁丘建一座水电站的话，我们没有恶意，但是… … 对蚁来说这太糟糕了。