I spent three weeks talking to student leaders and members of the Basij (an all-volunteer, quasi-legal militia), to exhausted waiters and urban hipsters.

• 我花了三周时间与学生领袖、伊斯兰武装力量动员队（一个全部成员均为志愿者的准合法民兵组织）成员、疲惫的侍者以及都会时尚人士交谈。