These underlying psychological phenomena mean that the Rashomon effect can pop up anywhere.

这些潜在的心理现象意味着罗生门效应可以在任何地方出现。

But the Rashomon effect undermines the very idea of a singular, objective truth.

但罗生门效应破坏了单一、客观真理的概念。

Often used to highlight the unreliability of eyewitnesses, the Rashomon effect usually occurs under two specific conditions.

罗生门效应经常被用来强调目击者的不可靠性，它通常发生在两种特定的情况下。

The Rashomon effect describes a situation in which individuals give significantly different but equally conceivable accounts of the same event.

罗生门效应描述了一种情况，在这种情况下，个人对同一事件给出截然不同但同样可以想象的描述。

Experts aside, the Rashomon effect can also impact the general public, particularly when it comes to the perception of complicated world events.

除了专家，罗生门效应也会影响普通大众，尤其是在涉及到对复杂世界事件的看法时。

It's tempting to fixate on why we have competing perceptions, but perhaps the more important question the Rashomon effect raises is, what is truth anyway?

人们很想关注为什么我们会有相互竞争的看法，但也许罗生门效应提出的更重要的问题是，究竟什么是真理？

As happened when I wrote a book about Henry Kissinger, which in some ways was good preparation for this project, I found that people had such strong positive and negative emotions about Jobs that the Rashomon effect was often evident.

在我写一本关于亨利·基辛格的书时也有类似的经历，那本书在某种程度上为本书提供了有益的借鉴。我发现人们对于乔布斯有着十分强烈的肯定或否定的情感，罗生门效应十分明显。