[微风]人对于自己没有经历过的事物产生感觉的唯一途径，就是借助自己头脑中为该事物勾勒的影像。正因如此，我们只有在充分了解他人的思想以后，方可真正理解他人的行为。

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event. That is why until we know what others think they know, we cannot truly understand their acts.

[微风]真实的环境在总体上过于庞大、复杂，且总是转瞬即逝，令人难以对其深刻理解，我们实在没有能力对如此微妙、如此多元、拥有如此丰富可能性的外部世界应付自如。而且，尽管我们必须在真实环境中行动，但为了能够对其加以把握，就必须依照某个更加简单的模型对真实环境进行重建。这就像一个人若想环游世界，就必须有一张世界地图——对于他们来说，最大的困难在于如何依靠一张不是在波西米亚海岸绘制的地图实现自己或他人的愿望。

For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal with so much subtlety so much variety, so many permutations and combinations. And although we have to act in that environment, we have to reconstruct it on a simpler model before we can manage with it. To traverse the world men must have maps of the world. Their persistent diffculty is to secure maps on which their own need, or someone else's need, has not sketched in the coast of Bohemia.

[微风]于是，对舆论的分析就必须从厘清下述三者之间的关系开始：行动的环境、人们头脑中关于那个环境的图景，以及人对于从环境中滋生出来的那幅图景做出的反应。这一切就像一出要求演员本色出演的戏剧，剧中情节并不仅仅是虚构的表演，而是深深嵌入了表演者的真实生活。

The analyst of public opinion must begin then, by recognizing the triangular relationship between the scene of action, the human picture of that scene, and the human response to that picture working itself out upon the scene of action. It is like a play suggested to the actors by their own experience, in which the plot is transacted in the real lives of the actors, and not merely in their stage parts.

[微风]此事说明，即便是对于训练有素的律师而言，先等待有关反馈，再发表评论，也是一件相当困难的事。评论往往与质询同时出现。虚构的事实通常由于符合人们的期待而被当作真相。

It reveals how difficult it is, even for trained lawyers, to suspend response until the returns are in. The response is instantaneous. The fiction is taken for truth because the fiction is badly needed.

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