He doesn't do a lot of public speaking but he is willing, for young people like you, to do this-- so that's one of our outside speakers.

他很少做公共演讲,但他很愿意为你们这样的年轻学生们,做这次演讲,这是客座嘉宾之一

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Goncourt, one of the writers, the Goncourts, the one who hadn't died yet, was no friend of ordinary people, but there's an amazing scene in his memoirs when he's down by the Hotel de Ville and he sees these women chained together, being walked around, and he says, "What, where are they going?"

龚古尔,龚古尔两兄弟都是作家,当时还活着的那一个,和平头百姓从来合不来,但在他的回忆录里有这样惊人的一幕,他路过市政厅的时候,看见一些被锁链串成一列的妇女们,正在被游街,他就问,"怎么,她们这是要去哪"

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If you go down into France, if you go to la belle France, the painting is dominated by nobles who want pictures of themselves, or the tiresome Sun King and all his sort of miserable and all his sort of miserablehangers-on, very rich, miserable hangers-on.

如果你到了法国,"美丽"的法兰西,这些画作被,那些想为自己留像的士绅们所拥有,或者被令人讨厌的"太阳王",以及他可悲的走狗们,富有但却可悲的走狗们所拥有

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