The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause.

• 安慰剂仅仅是一个有形的物体，它在一个视无形甚为不悦的时代尤为重要，这个时代里，“每一个内在的效果都有外在的原因”的这一观念更受推崇。