You have to have a sense that you are part of this imagined community.

你必须有这样的一种概念你是想象共同体中的一部分。

Whereas modern nations are imagined communities, in the sense that I don't even know all these people.

而现代国家是想象中的社区，从某种意义上说， 我什至不认识所有这些人。

With the authority of statistics waning, and nothing stepping into the public sphere to replace it, people can live in whatever imagined community they feel most aligned to and willing to believe in.

随着统计数据的权威逐渐衰落，没有什么东西能够进入公共领域取代它，人们可以生活在任何他们觉得与自己最一致以及最愿意相信的想象中的社区。