来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：资本主义：成功、危机与改革 第5集 第5集》

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  the director of Yale University Press called me,
  耶鲁大学出版社主管打电话给我
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  I'm on his--I'm on the committee that decides
  我是那个决定出版什么书的委员会的成员
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  what books they publish-- and the question was:
  他问我
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  Can we pull the cartoons out of the book?
  我们能把书里的卡通去掉么
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  These are cartoons which make devout Muslims very mad.
  这些卡通能气死虔诚的穆斯林教徒
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  And the answer we arrived at, very reluctantly,
  最后我们不情愿地决定
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  Yes pull the cartoons.
  好吧 把卡通去掉
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  And that--think of that problem,
  想想这个问题
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  and think of what possible explanation
  想想会是什么原因
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  could there be why a great university feels itself
  使得一间很好的大学
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  unwilling to stand up for freedom of expression
  不愿意维护
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  in the case of these admittedly blasphemous cartoons.
  这些明显渎神的卡通的言论自由