The associate professor of public policy, who is affiliated with Harvard, has written a fascinating book called Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, due out in September.

这位哈佛大学的公共政策副教授最近写了一本有趣的书，叫做《删除：数字数代遗忘的好处》(Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age)，将在 9 月份出版上市。

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Public opinion did not regard this as exceptional virtue.

公众舆论并不认为这是什么了不起的品德。

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As soon as this virtue is honoured and practised by some few men, it spreads through instruction and example to the young, and eventually becomes incorporated in public opinion.

起初只是少数几个人尊重而实行这个美德，但通过教诲和示范的作用，很快也就传播到年轻的一代，而终于成为公众信念的一个组成部分。

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That concern with the state of one's soul he tells the jury has lead him not only to impoverish himself but to turn himself away from the public business from the things that concern the city to the pursuit of private virtue.

这种对灵魂状态的关心,如同他告诉陪审团,已经导致他不只精疲力尽,而且还使他从公共事务,即城邦所关心的事务,转向探寻个人的美德。

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At a recent forum sponsored by the Hudson Institute, social conservatives argued that governments should aim to encourage public virtue, others that government should get off people's backs.

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For example, I daresay that the financiers and politicians of 2011 are veritable paragons of public virtue compared to the pirates who commandeered our way of life during the Gilded Age.

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They used to call it Public Virtue.

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