It was an absurd sham, an entire nation mobilized to soothe one man's fragile ego, yet behind the spectacle lay nothing, but violence and sadism.

这是一场荒谬骗局，整国家动员起来安抚一弱自我，但在这一幕背后，除了暴力和虐待，什么都没有。

Lately LulzSec has changed tack, branding itself a champion of the oppressed, perhaps to shake off accusations of political indifference and sadism.

最近LulzSec改换了策略，给自己定位为打压受害者，或许是想要摆脱政治冷漠和施虐帽子。

Ernest may not have shared Win's alcoholism nor sadism, but also, this second marriage was a platonic relationship.

欧内斯特可能没有像温那样酗酒，也没有虐待狂，但这第二次婚姻是一种柏拉图式关系。

Many people believe that the books, with what one contemporary critic decried as their " sex, snobbery and sadism" , are skilfully crafted but feel very much of their time—and not in a good way.

许多认为， 这些书虽然被一位当代评论家斥为“性、利和虐待狂”，但制作精良， 但感觉很符合他们时代——而且不是一种好方式。

I learned pretty early on that effective horror is not about sadism.

我早就明白，有效恐怖故事并不关乎施虐。

They said paperbacks weren’t just for “sex, sadism and the smoking gun.”

他们说平装书不仅仅是为了“性、虐待狂和确凿证据”。

Narcissism and sadism that goes along with that.

自恋以及随之而来施虐倾向。

The symptoms include narcissism, the lack of empathy, and the presence of sadism.

这些症状包括自恋、缺乏同理心以及存在施虐倾向。

Gleeful in their sadism about, hey, government workers, you're fired.

他们在虐待政府员工时乐不可支，嘿，政府工作员，你们被解雇了。

The ers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

读者是安静， 没有敌意或虐待狂。

Look, you know, I don't know what you think from Mortimer, but I think there's a learned sadism in the British psyche, which is punishing people is somehow better than healing them.

你知道吗，我不清楚你对莫蒂默有什么看法，但我认为英国心理中存在一种习得残忍倾向，认为惩罚比治愈更值得。

And so if you ritualize sadism, if you ritualize punishment, if you ritualize a sense of surveillance, people are going to start punishing themselves, right?

因此， 若你将施虐仪式化， 将惩罚仪式化，或将监视感仪式化，们就会开始自我惩罚，对吧？

His goal was to provide shock value to whoever discovered the bodies, which is yet more evidence of his sadism.

他目就是让发现尸体感到震惊，这再次证明了他残忍本性。

How on earth in a place of such brutality, death, pain, sadism, all the grimmest words you could find.

在这样一充满残暴、死亡、痛苦和虐待狂地方，究竟是如何做到呢？

And I also think it's making a point that sadism can often be hidden behind the guise of religion.

而且我认为这也在强调一观点：虐待狂常常伪装成宗教模样。

This statement might seem to contradict the assumption that sadism is an outgrowth of hopelessness.

这说法可能会与施虐倾向是绝望产物这一假设相矛盾。

Again, almost everyone has some unconscious sadism and masochism in his makeup.

同样，几乎每性格中都潜藏着一些无意识施虐狂和受虐狂。

And sadism is a power maneuver, fundamentally.

从根本上说，施虐是一种权力操纵。

So in summary, even though, again, I dislike diagnosing from afar, if we are to take his online presence as accurate, Elliot had features of psychopathy, schizotypal personality, sadism, narcissism, delusions of grandeur, severe envy of other people.

总结来说，尽管我再次强调不喜欢远距离诊断，但如果我们以他在网上表现为准，埃利奥特表现出精神病态、类精神分裂格、施虐倾向、自恋、夸大妄想以及对他极度嫉妒等特征。

If we regard sadism as a neurotic symptom, we must start, as always, not by trying to explain the symptom but by seeking to understand the structure of the personality that develops it.

如果我们把施虐倾向视为一种神经症症状，我们必须始终从理解产生这种症状格结构开始， 而不是试图解释症状本身。