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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You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

你被十二个好人试探过,他们说你是有罪的,并不是你同辈的人,乃是高过你如天上从地狱出来一般。

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

我认为每个男主角都想成为一个角色演员,每个角色演员都想成为一个男主角。

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

国家和个人一样,都要为他们的罪行受到惩罚。

I've got a big mole on my butt. It's true.

我屁股上有颗大痣。这是真的。

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

我可能会因为生活艰辛而受到惩罚。