有时我们这些持不同政见者收到的不是邀请而是致歉、有时我们收到了邀请，但为了不给我们勇敢的外交官朋友带来麻烦，知趣地没有去参加。
Sometimes we dissidents were not invited, but received an apology, and sometimes we were invited, but did not accept the invitation so as not to complicate the lives of our courageous diplomat friends.