So we view ourselves as highly intelligent beings.

我们认为自己是高度智慧的人。

You're an intelligent being, not a simple creature of instinct.

拥有智慧， 而不是单靠本能的动物。

Some people believe that there are intelligent beings like mankind in outer space.

有些人相信，在外太空像人类一样会有智慧型生物。

Which is clearly a useful ability for intelligent beings that have complex social lives.

显然，对于拥有复杂社交生活的智慧生物来说，这是一种有用的能力。

If we are the only intelligent beings in the galaxy, we should make sure we survive and continue.

若我们是星河里唯一智能生物，就必须确保自己能存活并延续下去。

What does the 'uniquely rational way' for us to communicate with other intelligent beings in space depend on?

对我们来说是依据什么唯一合理的方法来和太空中其他高等生物进行交流？

They're profoundly social and profoundly intelligent beings.

他们是极富社会性和极度智慧的生物。

You assume that they were created by an intelligent being.

你假设它们是由智慧生物创造的。

Are there intelligent beings on other planets?

【intelligent，intelligently】在其他行星上是否有智慧生命存在？

When you talk about other intelligent beings, is it outside our world as well?

当你谈论其他智慧生命时，它是否也在我们的世界之外？

The camera has been constructed by an intelligent--by intelligent beings to fulfill a purpose.

相机是由智能生物建造的，目的是为了实现某种目的。

We're intelligent beings. We have tO learn tO rise abOve the physical stuiff.

我们是万物之灵 必须要超越肉体。

Clay wonders why a conscious intelligent being, unlike any other species, dies like every other species.

克莱想知道为什么一个与其他物种不同的、有意识的智慧生物会像其他物种一样死亡。

Accordingly, he paused, and spoke in words as kind and friendly as if he were addressing more intelligent beings.

因此，他停顿了一下， 说出亲切友好的话， 就好像他在对更聪明的人说话一样。

Particular intelligent beings may have laws of their own making, but they have some likewise which they never made.

特殊的 " 智能存在物 " 能够拥有自己制定的法律，然而也有一些并非是他们创造的，却被他们所拥有。

For example: " Sentient robots raise important moral and ethical questions about the treatment of intelligent beings, the nature of consciousness and the responsibilities of creators."

“有感知能力的机器人会引发重要的道德和伦理问题，涉及如何对待有智力的生命、何为意识的本质、创造者的责任等。”

This view, you could call it " creationism, " which is that biological structures were created by an intelligent being, has always had problems.

这种观点，你可以称之为“神创论”，即生物结构是由智慧生物创造的，但一直存在问题。

Fortunately, there is a 'uniquely rational way' for us to communicate with other intelligent beings, as Walter Sullivan has put it in his excellent book, We Are not Alone.

幸运的是，有一种我们可以和其他智力生命通迅联系的“唯一合理的方法”，正如活尔特.沙利方在其杰作中阐述的。我们并不孤独。

Any intelligent being an observer within the universe must be on one side or other side of the Janus point, so they will think that's their direction of time.

宇宙中任何智慧的观察者都必须在雅努斯点的一边或另一边，所以他们会认为那是他们的时间方向。

And the reason we observe this thermodynamic arrow to agree with the cosmological arrow is that intelligent beings can exist only in the expanding phase.

而我们观察到这个热力学箭头与宇宙学箭头一致的原因是，智慧生命只能存在于膨胀阶段。