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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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I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

我真希望我能编造一个弥天大谎。有时候，在面试结束后，我对自己说，‘伙计，你太诚实了——难道你就不能找点乐子吗?你就不能撒些下流下流的谎吗?但我内心的清教徒认为，如果我说谎，我就会受到惩罚。

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A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

他们所生活的那个时代的最高权威曾说过许多事情都是不真实的，荒谬的，甚至是不可能的。后来，甚至在很短的时间内，人们发现这些事情都是可能的，也是真实的。

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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

如果这一切都失败了，那么一个人的性格就只能通过他所不善于接受的一个笑话来确定了。

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Because people should not be punished for loving and hoping and holding their hearts open.

因为人们不应该因为爱、希望和敞开心扉而受到惩罚。

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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

的确，她想，大事使我们敬畏，但小事却使我们感动。

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But in action, one defies one's character.

但在行动中，一个人违背了自己的性格。

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