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How do you feel about all this adulation and hero worship?     你如何看待这种极致的追捧和英雄崇拜现象？
Do you share Chris Singer's almost religious reverence for Bob Dylan?     你是否和克里斯·辛格一样，对鲍勃·迪伦怀有近乎宗教般的崇敬？
Do you find Alice Cooper's ghoulish performances appealing, or do you find them repulsive?     你觉得艾丽斯·库珀的暗黑表演有吸引力，还是会觉得反感？
In one 1972 national opinion poll, more than 10 percent of the high school boys and 20 percent of the girls said their hero was a rock superstar.     1972年的一项全国民意调查显示，超过10%的高中男生和20%的高中女生表示，他们心中的英雄是摇滚巨星。
Some sociologists say that your answers to these questions could explain a lot about what you're thinking and about what your society is thinking—in other words, about where you and your society are.     部分社会学家指出，你对这些问题的回答，能充分反映你和你所处社会的思想状态——换句话说，能清晰体现你和你的社会当下的精神坐标。
Sociologist Irving Horowitz sees the rock music arena as a sort of debating forum, a place where ideas clash and crash. He sees it as a place where American society struggles to define and redefine its feelings and beliefs.     社会学家欧文·霍洛维茨将摇滚音乐领域视作一个辩论论坛，一个不同思想碰撞交锋的场域。他认为这里是美国社会努力去定义、再定义自身情感与信仰的空间。
The redefinition, he notes, is a job only the young can do. It is only they who can mix together words, music, politics, and body movement into a new kind of statement.     他特别提到，这种重新定义是只有年轻人才能完成的工作，只有他们能把文字、音乐、政治和肢体动作融合成一种全新的表达。
Todd Rundgren, a composer and performer, agrees. "Rock isn't so much a kind of music," he says, "as it is a social statement."     创作型歌手托德·朗德格伦认同这个观点，他说：“与其说摇滚是一种音乐，不如说它是一种社会宣言。”