I mean, that human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you.

我的意思是，人类的爱心和同情心在你的身上表现得很强烈。

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Crowdsourcing, unhitched from human or editorial intervention, becomes the search engine-based object of our affections, and it's no surprise that Google takes more than a few hits from Lanier's pen.

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