You can compel obedience, but not affection.

可以逼人服从，却无法逼人生爱。

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But there are many other passions which we share in common with the brutes, such as resentment, natural affection, even gratitude, which do not, upon that account, appear to be so brutal.

但是有些我们与野兽共有的激情，例如有些愤怒，自然的情感，甚至感激，却因此而看上去不是那么野蛮。

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He draws on his Japanese heritage to talk about aichaku, literally 'love-fit', 'a kind of symbiotic love for an object that deserves affection not for what it does, but for what it is'.

Maeda用日本传统的方式谈论了“aichaku”，字面上的意思是“偶像崇拜”—即人和物品之间“共生共存”的爱意。而这个物品之所以为人们所喜爱并不是因为这个物品能做什么，而是因为这个物品带给人们的情感联系。

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