Halloween is the gaudiest example of the infantilization of the American culture.

万圣节是美国文化不成熟最俗丽的表现。

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Milton has shown so much promise. He possessed so many obvious talents that could be poured into the profession for which he was so clearly suited the profession of the ministry but Milton was remaining at his father's house in what seemed like a perpetual state of humiliating self-infantilization.

弥尔顿表现出了很大的决心,他拥有那么多,这个职业需要的天赋,例如牧师,而弥尔顿却选择呆在他父亲的房子里,像是一种永远羞耻的不成熟状态。

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There's a certain infantilization of the federal government here that should be especially alarming to taxpayers who have ever crossed paths with the IRS. The agency has the power to make citizens lives miserable, ruin their businesses and garnish their wages.

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Given the increasing infantilization of our society, the way in which few are gainfully employed until their mid- to late 20s, the young are of course in favour of a system which passes all sorts of things on to them for free.

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Part of this approach surely has to do with the apologetic stance that business schools have taken since the financial meltdown, but it also traces its roots before that to the corporate infantilization trend spawned by bloated tech startups in the late nineties.

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