Ever since, it has borne a whiff of consumerist self-indulgence, and its advocates then and now are accused of prizing sensation over anything more profound or ostensibly value-laden.

从那以后，这一权利就被蒙上了消费主义自我放纵的色彩，而且，这一权利的提倡者鼓吹感觉至上、忽视其他一切深刻且有价值的事物，也时常受到指责。

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But their findings suggest it may instead be a kind of cerebral clearinghouse, a place where all the components of self-awareness-memory, logic, language, sensation, and emotion-come together.

可他们的研究结果表明，这个区域反而可能是大脑的“票据交易所”，一切和人的自我意识有关的能力，如记忆力、逻辑推理能力、语言能力、感知能力和情绪，全都汇聚在这里。

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We identify with the estranged sensation, absorbed by it, rather than reverting to understanding it egotistically as an expression of an inner self, already formed, already perfected.

我们认同陌生化的感觉，被它迷醉，而不是倒退到刚愎自用的理解，后者试图把它当做内在自我已经成型的完美表现。

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The sensation it caused was due largely to the fact that its vampire, a self-involved, aristocratic Lothario, distinctly resembled the author's erstwhile employer.

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