The oxford strand(分支；脉络) of the effective-altruism movement began in November 2009 with 23 people who had pledge(承诺；保证)d 10% of their income to charities that benefit the extreme poor. If you’d told us, then, that The Economist would call effective altruism “the century’s biggest idea”, we’d have been incredulous(难以置信的；怀疑的).
有效利他主义运动的牛津分支始于2009年11月，当时只有23个人，他们承诺将收入的10%捐给救济极端贫困者的慈善机构。如果那时有人告诉我们，《经济学人》会把有效利他主义称为“本世纪最伟大的理念”，我们一定会觉得难以置信。
I think that claim is overstated(言过其实的；夸大的). But as one of the movement’s founders, I found plenty to like in this newspaper’s latest coverage. I appreciated the even-handed(不偏不倚的；公允的) view of the movement’s history and the good-faith(善意的；真诚的) criticism. The cover leader’s warning that any worldview, when taken to an extreme, can lead somewhere terrible is spot on.(封面社论警告说，任何世界观一旦走向极端，都可能引向可怕的境地——这一点完全正确。)
我认为这种说法言过其实。但作为该运动的创始人之一，本刊最新的报道中有不少地方让我欣赏。我赞赏它对运动历史的公允态度，以及善意的批评。封面社论警告说，任何世界观一旦走向极端，都可能引向可怕的境地——这一点完全正确。
But the article also raises concerns(引发担忧；提出疑虑) about the “strange” ideas that those in the effective-altruism movement sometimes discuss, and here is where I disagree. The movement’s willingness to take strange-seeming ideas seriously, when tempered with common sense, is a big part of the value it has to offer.(该运动愿意认真对待看似古怪的想法——只要以常识加以调和——这正是它所能提供的价值的重要部分。)
但这篇文章也对有效利他主义运动人士有时讨论的“古怪”想法提出了担忧，而这一点我不同意。该运动愿意认真对待看似古怪的想法——只要以常识加以调和——这正是它所能提供的价值的重要部分。