我可以想象你检视“古”春宫的场景，要避免任何现代社会的痕迹——或者甚至是一战前的——如果一出现这类痕迹，马上扼杀了兴致。

I imagine you inspecting “vintage” erotica for any hints of the modern world — or even anything post-World War I — that, if found, instantly kill the fantasy.

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几十年前，爱尔兰对现代社会培养神甫这一观点满不在乎：教堂都挤满了人。

A couple of decades ago Ireland defied the idea that modern societies grow secular: churches were packed.

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不过，今天的现代社会虽然对一种公共健康紧急状态足以应付裕如，但事实上在疾病蔓延前很脆弱。

Yet while today's modern world is much better prepared to deal with a public health emergency, in one respect, it is in fact more vulnerable to contagion.

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