He and some of his acolytes are imprisoned also, perhaps, by a notion of themselves as guardians of the public realm, a part of their political identities too vital to be revised.

• 他和他的下属们认为他们是公共领域的卫士，他们沉溺于这种观念之中，这也是他们政治认同中至关重要的一部分，难以更改。