电影和书籍中露骨的性爱场景在旧体制下是禁忌的。

Sexually explicit scenes in movies and books were taboo under the old regime.

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在字典的帮助下，他在业余时间读英语杂志和书籍。

With the help of a dictionary, he read English magazines and books in his spare time.

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收音机、手机、自行车、袖珍计算器和书籍都被报失窃。

Radios, cell phones, bicycles, pocket calculators and books have all been reported stolen.

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We know what censorship is. Censorship is the banning of books that have been published and that have been deemed by the state authorities to be dangerous or harmful in some way.

我们知道什么是控制，控制就是,禁止已经出版的书籍和被政府认为,在某些方面非常危险和有害的。

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That is to say, he is in a certain sense book- and language-determined, and he's obscurely aware that this is his problem even as it's a source of pride for him.

意思就是，某种程度上他的意志是由书籍和语言决定的，他也模模糊糊地明白即便这是他引以为豪的,同时也是他的一个问题。

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I don't think that's gonna happen. What I really do hope is books like this and other actors coming to help religion and rights to be reconcile in a positive way. I don't think that's impossible at all.

我觉得这不太可能会发生，我真正希望的是,能有这样的书籍出现，或者其他的因素,促使宗教和人权和谐共处,走向和解的道路，我觉得这完全有可能。

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