For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

  • -- Adam Johnson 亚当·约翰逊

对全体民众来说,变革、成长和自发性是危险的。根据个人的欲望行事,低声诉说隐藏的渴望,揭示你的真实感受——所有我们认为对一个角色至关重要的人类行为——都被自我审查,以免受到国家的惩罚。

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To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

对于那些每个月留出一点钱供孩子生活,或供自己退休后生活的辛勤工作的人们,我要说:你们应该得到奖赏,而不是惩罚。

Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

因为人们在报纸上读到这些东西,他们认为这是真的。十年前,我刚才提到的所有这些事情都会使我心烦意乱。

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

嗯,我认为每个角色都有你自己的点点滴滴。

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

比起全新的东西,我更喜欢那些旧的、破旧的、有个性的东西。

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

礼貌的唯一真正来源是体贴。

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

人所犯的罪,正与他的罪相称。