When he entered the parlor, she put on an innocent look as if nothing had happened, and said, "Well, did you bring a good piece of wood for a reel?"

丈夫一进屋，女人就装出若无其事的样子问：「怎么，砍了块做轴的好木回来没有？」

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It has worked out that in an age of mass media, instantly relayed round the world, impact counts: and nothing makes more impact than the carnage of the innocent.

它已了解到在大量媒体存在的时代，信息在全球范围内传送，冲突便有价值了——没有什么比滥杀无辜更有冲击力的了。

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Yet considering how many people the average social media user is connected to, it is also a great way to ensnare a lot of innocent people who share nothing more than a love of cat photos in a government investigation.

FORBES: Social Network Software Lets Government Predict Your Movements

Some of this is nothing more than innocent, if irritating, grandiosity.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

This time, the world's most magnificent democracy is struggling against vile terrorists who thought nothing of slaughtering thousands of innocent civilians and yet the administration has somehow contrived to turn America's own human-rights record into a subject of legitimate debate.

ECONOMIST: Torture