While alienation and isolation are certainly hallmarks of modern life, when a crowd is needed, it springs into life. 虽然疏远和孤立无疑是现代生活的特征，但当需要人群时，它就会活跃起来。 The 2009 Iran green revolution...
The explosion of CCTV is just one way the 21st-century city hampers the freedom of the crowd. 监控数量的暴涨是这个21世纪城市阻碍群众自由的一种方式。 Urban regeneration programmes are designed to channel us efficiently toward...
In 1994, parliament passed the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, 1994年，议会通过了《刑事司法公诉令》， which outlawed any open air, night-time public congregation around amplified music. 该法令禁止任何伴着大声外放音...
Contemporary Britain's idea of the crowd was formed by two explosions in unruly mass culture at the end of the last century. 当代英国人对人群的概念是由上世纪末难以驾驭的大众文化的两次爆炸形成的。 First, by 70s and 8...
In recent decades, detailed analytical research has produced ever-more sophisticated insights into crowd behaviour, many of which disprove these long-standing assumptions. 近几十年来，详尽的分析研究对群体行为产生了越来越复杂的...
It wasn't until the 19th century, as industrialising cities exploded in size, 直到19世纪，随着工业化城市的扩张， that the formal study of crowd psychology and herd behaviour emerged. 人群心理学和从众行为的正式研究才出现...
For most of us, a crowd can be an alluring thing, because the desire to be among the throng seems to be innate. 对我们大多数人来说，聚集是一件诱人的事情，因为融入人群的欲望似乎是与生俱来的。 Gathering together f...
While the pandemic has made exceptional demands of us, even before the Covid-19 lockdown, crowds have been under threat. 尽管流行病对我们提出了特殊要求，但甚至在因新冠病毒禁闭之前，人群聚集就已受到威胁。 We we...
As the lockdown commenced, I found myself cueing up other songs that reminded me of crowds. 当禁闭开始时，我发现自己开始寻找其他让我想起人群的歌曲。 In the way a single snatch of melody can instantly remind you of an ex, o...
As lockdown loomed in March, I became obsessed with a football anthem for a team 400 miles away. 今年3月，当禁闭逼近时，我迷上了400英里外一支球队的足球圣歌。 I had read a news story about Edinburgh residents singing a Proc...
