Most people think that, but conservative estimates

很多人这么以为不过据保守估计
put cult membership at two million people in the United States.

美国有两百万邪教成员
Most of them, like this one, are underground to avoid scrutiny.

绝大多数都跟这个一样秘密运行以躲避监察
The nature of cults is that

邪教的性质特征就是
they are organized around a charismatic psychopath.

他们都围绕在一位极具领袖魅力的精神变态身边
This many will be superficially intelligent and charming.

此人看上去睿智而有魅力
Like Jim Jones at Jonestown

就像琼斯镇惨案里的吉姆·琼斯
and Tony Alamo and Alamo Ministries

阿拉莫教会的托尼·阿拉莫
or Charles Dederich in Synanon,

或是锡南浓村的查理斯·迪德瑞克
this man will have convinced his followers

此人会教唆信徒们
to sublimate their needs for his own...

放弃自己的需求而服务于他个人的需求
to the point of self-harm or even suicide.

从而走上自残甚至自杀之路