这场丑闻为现代日本提供了许多注解--日本的社会正经历着从非正式、充斥潜规则的社会转变为一个正式的、具体规则社会的彻底变革。

The scandal says a lot about modern Japan, a country undergoing a sweeping transition from informal, implicit rules to formal, explicit ones.

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所有药剂师都受到保密性这一社会规则的约束。

All pharmacists are bound by the society's rules of confidentiality.

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任何井然有序的社会都需要一套客观公正、为大家所接受的规则。

An objective set of rules which we all agree to accept is necessary for any ordered society.

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If you live in a society that operates under those rules, then it should be up to the government to decide how those resources that come back through taxation are distributed because it is through the consent of the government.

如果你在一个按照上述规则运行的社会中生活，那么就应该由政府来决定,如何分配，通过征税收回的资源,因为那是政府一致表决通过的。

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So the pessimistic view...My read on it is almost as if you're saying that, "you don't want to grow up, you don't want to learn the rules of filmmaking or society. If you can maintain your innocence, you're sort of never die. You'll never have regret."

因此关于悲观主义观点，我的解读是,似乎你在说，你不想成长，你不想学电影的拍摄方法以及社会规则,如果你能够保持纯真，你就用不会逝去，你也不会有遗憾“

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