Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

  • -- Erica Jong 艾瑞卡·琼

流言蜚语是受压迫者的麻醉剂。

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There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

人性中有一种欲望是任何魅力都无法驯服的,那就是大声宣扬邻居的耻辱:在鹰的翅膀上,不朽的丑闻飞翔,而正直的行为则生而又死。

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

如果你不小心,报纸会让你憎恨被压迫者,而喜欢压迫者。

Fire dies for lack of wood; if there's no whispering, gossip stops.

火因缺柴而灭;如果没有窃窃私语,流言蜚语就会停止。

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

现在睡眠是我的爱人,我的遗忘,我的麻醉剂,我的遗忘。

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!

那些压迫我们的人说我们是黑暗大陆!