Here and elsewhere, “Let the Great World Spin” can feel like a precursor to another novel of colliding cultures: “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” Tom Wolfe's classic portrait of New York in the 1980s.

这里和在别处，《转吧，这伟大的世界》感觉成书先于另一部碰撞文化小说——《虚荣的篝火》”，（作者汤姆沃尔夫，是描述1980年代纽约的经典之作。）

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"Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities" is at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence until January 22nd 2012.

“货币与美德：银行家，波提切利和虚荣的火焰”在佛罗伦萨市诗特洛齐宫展出至2012年1月22日。

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He presents us with more a celebration of the vanities than a bonfire.

他呈现给我们的是对虚荣的颂扬而不是篝火。

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The 79-year-old author of The Bonfire of the Vanities sang a few lines from The Girl of Ipanema as he collected his honour on Wednesday.

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There will be a bonfire of euro vanities, Mr Van Rumpuy will be cross etc.

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Bonfire of the Vanities is my favorite novel, followed closely by A Man in Full.

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