candour n. 率直;正直;公平
artifice n. 技巧;巧妙;诡计
Increasingly, however, it feels as though those limits are being constantly breached, either voluntarily, accidentally, by force or by cunning. With blogs, tweets, webcams, Facebook and YouTube, there is always a mic or camera somewhere and it is always running. Our personal diaries have become an open book. The era in which we might reasonably expect to enjoy a conversation that is both discrete and discreet has passed. For the moment at least, we are all living our lives in public.
breach n. v. 违反;破坏
The personal fallout from all of this is clear and go beyond mere embarrassment. Take Tyler Clementi, the 18-year-old Rutgers student who committed suicide after his roommate, Dharun Ravi, set up a camera in his room to watch Tyler in a gay sexual encounter. Later, Ravi would try the same again and tweet about it to his 150 followers. In the past, such homophobia would have gone no further than malicious gossip vicious, hurtful and wrong, certainly. But in all likelihood, it would not have been as devastating to Clementis self-respect and possibly with less fatal consequences. Throughout the western world, teenagers particularly, young women are routinely humiliated by having their indiscretions recorded and sent out to the world.
go beyond 超出;胜过
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