综合英语教程6 翻译

1. They can move a nation to fall on its knees and sincerely worship an Emperor who, without the clothes and the title, would drop to the rank of the cobbler and be swallowed up and lost sight of in the massed multitude of the inconsequentials...

衣着与头衔能让一个民族心甘情愿地跪拜在一个君主面前。而这个君主，如果没有衣着和头 衔的支撑，会沦为鞋匠之流，消失在芸芸众生之中。

2. Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

人类是玩笑的结果吗？是上帝感到无聊又无大事可做时草草拼在一起的玩物吗？

3. Mine are able to expand a human cipher into a globe-shadowing portent.

我的衣着能把我从一个无名小卒变成了一个全球耀眼的巨人。

4. And probably at no other point is the sense of shabbiness so keenly felt as it is if we fall short of the standard set by social usage in this matter of dress.

可能最感到寒酸的时刻是我们没按照社会的规范穿着自己。

5. It is true of dress in even a higher degree than of most other items of other consumption, that people will undergo a very considerable degree of privation in the comforts or the necessaries of life in order to afford what is considered a decent amount of wasteful consumption.

人们为了能付得起一定量的、通常被认为是浪费性的消费，会在生活的其他方面尽量节俭。 这在穿衣方面表现得尤其明显。

6. The commercial value of the goods used for clothing in any modern community is made up to a much larger extent of the fashionableness, the reputability of the goods than of the mechanical service, which they render in clothing the person of the wearer.

在任何一个现代社会，用作穿着的商品的商业价值在很大程度上不取决于它的商业服务功 能，而是该商品本身和在包装穿戴者时所产生的时髦效益及声誉。

7. This would require a loss of wholeness and self, a dishonest constraint.

这会使人们失去自我，是一种虚伪的限制。

1. Today, thanks to the democratization of technology, all sorts of countries have the opportunity to assemble the technologies, raw materials and funding to be producers, or subcontractors, of highly complex finished products or services, and this becomes another subtle factor knitting the world more tightly together.

今天，由于技术的普及，每个国家都有机会聚集各种技术、原材料和资金，成为制造商或转 包商，生产或者销售高度复杂的终端产品或者服务，这成为另一种把世界更紧密地联系在一 起的无形的因素。

2. The creation of this corporate bond market introduced some pluralism into the world of finance and took away the monopoly of the banks.

企业债券市场的出现，将多元化引入金融界，打破了银行的垄断。

3. Investment banks started approaching banks and home mortgage companies, buying up their whole portfolio of mortgage…

投资银行开始去找银行和房屋按揭公司，将它们的按揭债务全部买下

4. You could take your choice, and people did .

人们可以有多种选择，而且也确实这样做了。

5. By shrinking a world to a size small , globalization brings home to everyone just how ahead or behind they are.

全球化把世界缩小，全球化让每个人都可以看清楚，自己的日子是过得比人好还是比人差