These are also the backdrop for Owen Matthews's poignant history of his family's battle with Soviet bureaucracy at its most callous and Western officialdom at its most complacent.

在这段悲怆的历史背景下，作者欧文·马修斯(Owen Matthews)描述了家人同最冷酷无情的苏联当局和最自鸣得意的西方官僚展开的一段争斗历史。

These are particularly callous and cold-blooded statements suggesting that this instinctive empathy, this aspect of moral thought, is not-- is present in most of us but not in all of us.

这些极其无情冷血的话，表明移情这种本能，这种道德观念的一个要素-，存在于我们大部分人当中，但不是所有人。