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这是莫言答记者问的一段话，求翻译成英文。。不要有道直译的。最好在搜索相关资料后再翻。。。

再一个问题是跟共产党的关系密切和不密切，有没有一个衡量的标准呢？用什么来衡量密切？我也知道很多网上批评我的人，他们本身也是共产党员，他们本身也在体制内工作。有的人甚至在体制内获得了很大的好处。他们就认为我就是和共产党关系密切，他们不密切吗？这个我觉得也是莫名其妙的。我的一个观点是作家是靠作品出发的，作家的写作不是为了哪一个党派服务的，也不是为了哪一个团体服务的。作家的写作是在他良心的指引下，面对着所有的人，研究人的命运，研究人的情感，然后做出自己的判断。如果这些人读过我的书，或者是在座的朋友读过我的书，就会知道我对社会黑暗面的批判向来是非常凌厉的，非常严肃的。我在80年代写的，比如说《酒国》、《十三步》、《丰乳肥臀》这些作品，都是站在人的立场上，对社会上我认为的一切不公正的现象进行了毫不留情的批判。所以如果仅仅认为我没有上大街去喊口号，仅仅以为我没有在什么样的声明上签名，就认为我是一个没有批判性的，是一个官方的作家，这种批评是毫无道理的。

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Another question is whether the relationship between CCP( the Communist Party of China) is close or not. Is there a measuring standard? How to measure the closeness? I know many persons who criticize me online, they themselves are communists too, they themselves are working in the system. Some of them even get a great deal of benefit. They think that i'm close with CCP, aren't they close? I think that's baffling. One of my opinions is that a writer starts with he or her works, why a writer writes doesn't serve for any party, doesn't serve for any group. A writer writes under the guide of his or her conscience, facing all the people, searching their fates, searching their sentiment, and then make their own judgment. If those people have read my books, or the friends present have read my books, that will know that I am always very severe and serious to the criticize of the dark side of the society. What I wrote in the 80s, for examples, The Republic of Wine, which are all at the stand of people, and criticize mercilessly of all injustices that I think. So if simply think that I didn't go to the street to shout slogans, simply think that I didn't sign up in any statements, and then say I am an uncritical local writer, this kind of criticize is unreasonable.