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At this point the guard would then dig his heels push your nose into the cement.
然后守衛把他的腳后跟你的鼻子緊貼著地
With panic and claustrophobia setting in the prisoners could be made to blurt out information
隨著恐慌感和幽閉恐懼癥逐漸增加囚犯會將情報脫口而出
some of which would be false, but other bits of which would be true.
有些是假情報但是有些是真情報
The confession was typically followed by a cold soak which means 6 or 8 weeks of total isolation to contemplate one's crimes. "
說出情報后，一般會被冷浸，大約六到八個星期被完全隔離，反思自己的罪行"
In context Stockdale's comment" There are no virgins here."
在這種情況下，用斯托克代爾的話"沒有誰是清白的"
Seems more than just comfort, he seems to be saying to his fellow POW,
這不僅僅是安慰的話他不是為了安慰戰俘才這么說
that feeling shame is a morally appropriate response.
這種羞愧感是種道德上的合理反應
It's a decent response to being coerced to do what he finds ignominious and so
這是被強制做了自己認為是可恥的事情后的正常反應
I take it here that stoic, himself a stoic practitioner
所以這位禁欲主義者，他本人是禁欲主義的實踐者
and very, very, er moved by his reading of Epictetus
在讀過埃皮克提圖后深受感動
he'd use it as his salvation what kept him alive in his seven and a half years, he sees stoicism's limits.
他把這當成是自己的救贖，讓自己忍受了在七年半時間里活下來他看到了禁欲主義的局限
And I just want to re-mention here stoicism,
我這里想再說一說禁欲主義
the shame that he had that I'm referring to here is a, er an assessment of self appraisal
我這里提到的，他所有的羞愧感是自我評價
it's a self, a self um assessment um, it's a judgement I make about myself
是種自我評估是對自我的評價
and the point of recognising that torture victims
認識到這個程度，酷刑的受害者
may feel shame the point I think you were saying, is not that they ought to feel shame for breaking
可能會感到羞愧，我想你的意義可能是他們不應該為自己出賣情報而感到羞愧
but that they do and that is a very, very real er feeling and a real sense of moral injury
但是他們確實就是這么感覺的這是道德傷害，是非常真實的情感
that they have allowed themselves to engage in.
他們讓自己身陷其中
