What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

  • -- Roland Barthes 罗兰·巴特斯

公众想要的是激情的形象,而不是激情本身。

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

奴隶主和奴隶之间的整个贸易,一方面是最激烈的激情、最不懈的专制统治和另一方面是卑贱的服从的永恒活动。我们的孩子看到了这一点,并学会模仿。

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

我们只是要求该机构作出合理和诚实的决定,公众理应得到同样的权利。

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

激情的对象只是激情本身的附属品。

The public is a bad guesser.

公众是一个糟糕的猜测者。