The concepts of privacy and decency are so slippery (and class-bound) that they are not really the stuff of effective (or desirable) legislation when it comes to the press.
隐私和雅致的概念是含糊的(和阶级约束的),因此在报界不是有效的(或理想的)立法的概念。
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And if you ask why America is more class-bound in practice than the rest of the western world, a large part of the reason is that our government falls down on the job of creating equal opportunity.
His status in Lord Wellington's headquarters and the recognition given to him for his work were all bound up with the class politics of the army at the time.