Torture was once common in Europe's market squares. It is now unacceptable even when the world's most powerful nation wears the interrogator's mask.

酷刑在欧洲的广场上曾经很常见，而现在即便是世界上最强大的国家带上刑讯者的面具都不可接受。

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The idol was actually a wooden shaft with a mask attached, garlanded with ivy - perhaps the most common way of depicting Dionysus in the Greek world.

神像实际上是一个以面具附上的木轴，戴著长春腾花环，这或许是在希腊世界中最普遍的描述戴奥尼索斯的方法。

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Keyes is seen as a shadowy figure in ski mask and hood outside Common Grounds, a tiny Anchorage coffee shack then partially concealed from a busy six-lane highway by mountains of snow.

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"The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it, it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way, " he says.

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