Humane means you treat people or animals kindly: you do not hurt them if you can help it, and you try to keep their pain small. A humane shelter looks after stray dogs well. A humane law tries to stop cruel punishment.

Humanehumane means you treat people or animals kindly意思是你善待人或動物: you do not hurt them if you can help it能不傷害他們就不傷害, and you try to keep their pain small而且盡量讓他們少受苦. A humane shelter一個 humane shelter looks after stray dogs well會好好照顧流浪狗. A humane law一條 humane law tries to stop cruel punishment想要阻止殘忍的懲罰

It sounds a little formal — you meet it in news, in animal-care talk, and in arguments about right and wrong.

It它 sounds a little formal聽起來有點正式 — you meet it你會在 in news, in animal-care talk, and in arguments about right and wrong新聞、動物照護的討論，還有是非對錯的爭論裡遇到它

It looks like human, and they truly are family: both come from Latin humanus, from homo, 'man / a human being.' But they are not the same word. Human means of people. Humane means kind, not cruel — the better side of being human.

It它 looks like human看起來像 human, and they truly are family而它們的確是一家人: both come from Latin humanus, from homo, 'man / a human being.'兩個字都來自拉丁文 humanus，再往前是 homo，意思是「人」 But但 they are not the same word它們不是同一個字. Humanhuman means of people意思是「人的」. Humanehumane means kind, not cruel意思是「仁慈的、不殘忍的」 — the better side of being human是身為人比較好的那一面

Though actually, people sometimes stretch humane to mean civilised or soft, and that can start a fight: what one person calls humane, another calls too weak.

Though actually不過事實上, people sometimes stretch humane to mean civilised or soft有時候大家會把 humane 延伸成「文明的」或「心軟的」意思, and that can start a fight而這樣就可能引起爭執: what one person calls humane, another calls too weak一個人說是 humane 的事，另一個人可能說太軟弱