On Halloween, a few days after a student-led movement swept aside(推翻，清除) an illiberal(反自由的，不宽容的), seemingly invincible(不可战胜的) regime in my native Serbia, I was sitting on the Vienna tram and watched various friendly and malicious(恶意的，怀有恶意的) monsters getting on and off around me. Witches, devils and unicorns were politely making their way to their respective parties.
万圣节那天，一场学生领导的运动推翻了我故乡塞尔维亚一个反自由、看似不可战胜的政权，几天后，我坐在维也纳的电车上，看着形形色色友善的和恶意的怪物在我身边上下车。女巫、魔鬼和独角兽正彬彬有礼地赶往各自的派对。
Not all monsters wear fancy dress(化装服，奇装异服). Later that evening, I walked past a Serbian restaurant; in front of it stood a group of grumpy-looking(看起来脾气暴躁的) men. They were smoking, spitting and swearing. I recognised the hardened(久经世故的，铁石心肠的), couldn’t-care-less(满不在乎的) attitude, the smell of corruption, the penchant(嗜好，倾向) for violence. Yet they looked as though their lives were coming to an end. These men are the losers of the revolution that is taking place in Serbia. Their smuggling(走私) routes and deals are under threat. Their criminal networks no longer function.
并非所有怪物都穿着奇装异服。那天晚上稍晚些时候，我路过一家塞尔维亚餐馆，门前站着一群看起来脾气暴躁的男人。他们抽烟、吐痰、骂骂咧咧。我认出了那种 hardened、满不在乎的态度，那种腐败的气息，那种动辄诉诸暴力的倾向。然而他们看上去仿佛人生已走到尽头。这些人是正在塞尔维亚发生的革命的输家。他们的走私路线和交易受到威胁，他们的犯罪网络已无法运转。
There are other bogeymen(吓唬人的怪物) that have lost the power to terrify. The slimy(黏糊糊的；谄媚的) neoliberal aliens that grouped around their great leader, Aleksandar Vučić, our own version of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen(《沙丘》中的反派男爵) in David Lynch’s Dune. The poor and desolate creatures known in Belgrade as sendvičari(“三明治人”，被政府用食物收买的集会参与者), or “sandwich people”, because they would allow the government to recruit them for political rallies in exchange for(作为交换) a sandwich.
还有其他吓人的怪物已经失去了吓人的能力。那些黏糊糊的新自由主义外星人，聚集在他们的伟大领袖亚历山大·武契奇周围——武契奇就是我们自己的弗拉基米尔·哈克南男爵，出自大卫·林奇版《沙丘》。还有那些可怜而凄惨的生灵，在贝尔格莱德被称为 sendvičari，即“三明治人”，因为他们愿意让政府招募去参加政治集会，以换取一个三明治。