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n. 投票 动词vote的现在分词形式
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- It's no accident that democracy and theater emerged around the same time in ancient Athens.
- 无怪乎民主和剧院同时出现于古代雅典。
- Both of them yank the individual out of the enclosure of her private self.
- 民主和戏剧都把个体从私我中分离出来。
- Both of them create great public experiences of shared ritual.
- 都从一种共同的仪式感中创立了伟大的公共体验。
- Both of them bring the imagination to life in ways that remind us that all of our bonds in the end are imagined, and can be reimagined.
- 把想象带进了生活，让我们意识到错综复杂的社会联系都是由设想而来的，也可以进行重构。
- This moment right now, when we think about the meaning of imagination, is so fundamentally important,
- 此时此刻，当我们思索想象的意义，便会发觉想象是何其重要，
- and our ability to take that spirit and to take that sense that there is something greater out there,
- 我们如果有能力接受这样一种精神，这样一种感知，承认有更伟大的存在，
- is not just a matter of technical expertise.
- 并非只是技术性的专长。
- It's not just a matter of making the time or having the know-how. It is a matter of spirit.
- 不只是挤出时间或者拥有技术。这关乎一种精神。
- But let me give you an answer to this question, "Why bother?" that is maybe a little less spiritual and a bit more pointed.
- 让我来揭晓答案，究竟为什么要投票。答案并不虚空，而是有实践意义的。
- Why bother voting? Because there is no such thing as not voting.
- 为什么要投票？因为不存在不投票这种事。
- Not voting is voting, for everything that you may detest and oppose.
- 不投票也是投票。只不过投给了所有你不喜欢和反对的东西。
- Not voting can be dressed up as an act of principled, passive resistance,
- 不投票有时装扮成原则性的，被动的抵抗，
- but in fact not voting is actively handing power over to those whose interests are counter to your own,
- 但实际上不投票是交出权力，给那些与你利益相左的人，
- and those who would be very glad to take advantage of your absence. Not voting is for suckers.
- 那些很乐意利用你缺席的人。不投票是失败者的选择。
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