If human behaviour is unreformable, social policy can only ever be about trying to cage the ape within.

如果人类的行为不可改造，（那么人同猿人并无差别），社会政策就永远只能是为了把这个猿人关在笼子里。

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Some analysts say the whole Soviet system was unreformable and any change was bound to lead to an unstoppable process of increasingly dramatic transformation.

一些分析家称，整个苏维埃体系是不可改造的，体系内的任何变化势必导致越发戏剧性的、无法停止的转变。

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And we found in 1988 . that it was unreformable. You could not change it.

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The fire service has long been regarded by politicians and civil servants as essentially unreformable.

ECONOMIST: A Liverpool fireman demonstrates how it can be done