To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.

  • -- Simon Hoggart 霍加特

公平地说,他们只在刑讯逼供结束后才招供,他们声称招供是自愿的;如果他们没有坦白,酷刑会再次开始的事实只是一个小细节。

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I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

我想最近发生的事情已经证实了我在书中所表达的怀疑,我认为我所指出的一些事情已经更清楚了。例如,我在书中有一部分谈到了酷刑的可能性。

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

当你每天早上都要进入角色时,给它你的声音,你的脸,这是一种折磨。

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

佛陀在生与死之间自由自在地移动,随意出现与消失。