1. When evolution selects its agents, it does so at a cost. It makes demands in exchange for singularity. And you may be asked to do something against your very nature. Suddenly, the change in your life that should have been wonderful comes as a betrayal. It may seem cruel, but the goal is nothing short of self-preservation—survival.
——at a cost以什么为代价。It does so 是说evolution dose the thing of making demands。也就是说进化是以它有权命令被选者为代价，而选择它的代理人的。
——in exchange for singularity 进化用命令对换卓越，即进化给人超能力，代价是人要服从它。
——short of 这里指除了什么以外，即除了自保也就是生存之外任何都不是目的。
2. Well, this is macaroni and cheese. It's what Americans eat when they want to commit suicide slowly.
——我们美国人慢性自杀时吃的事物，讽刺一种不健康的饮食文化。macaroni and cheese 专有名词，起司空心粉。
3. Fine. You think you can paint the future. Paint one without me in it.
——你说你能够画出未来，那么画一个没有我在你身边的的未来。让人心碎的绝交用语啊！
4. Look, I know what it's like to raise a boy on your own. To be stretched so far, you wish you could be in two places at once. I get it.
——on one’s own 独自
——我知道独自抚养儿子是多么辛苦。至今你一直绷紧精神，使得你期望自己能够分身异地，我明白你的感受。（其实她一点也不明白，她觉得看得见另一个全新人格的自己，和婆婆说的分裂的程度截然不同；英雄们也面临着和正常人一样的情形，只是他们的程度更深一些罢了。）
5. It's New York. Everyone runs into each other sooner or later.
So I guess sooner rather than later.
——sooner or later 迟早，或早或晚；而改版后的sooner rather than later 更是强调了迟早的必然性和速度。
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