We know it's an illusion, but we get to live in it so comfortably with so little alteration of the nature of the illusion or of the way in which we negotiate the illusory world, that it becomes kind of womb-like and cozy.

我们知道那是幻觉，但是我们活在其中，如此舒适地,基本不去改变幻觉的本质,也不改变我们在这个幻境中生活的方式，它变得如子宫般安全舒适。

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A regime as I've said constitutes a people's way of life what they believe makes their life worth living or to put it again slightly differently what a people stand for.

政体，如前所述，包含了人民的生活方式,让他们相信自己的生命,值得继续,或是再稍作修润,即人民的主张。

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