I am told that it plays on a slang phrase then current, "to make a gazebo of yourself," meaning"to make a spectacle of yourself and a fool of yourself, publicly."

有人告诉我这是当时的说法,建筑楼台意思是“,当众出丑,大庭广众下出洋相“

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I am not really good at public speaking.

我一直不善于当众发言。

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This is when the addition gets very publically awkward so.

这时候还在做加法计算,当众出丑了吧。

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So you get a clue as to what we're supposed to think about him, and he makes a speech which denounces all of the basileus, Agamemnon ahead of any of them.

因此可以想见我们该会怎样看待他,他发表了一番言论,当众谴责了这些首领,尤其是阿伽门农

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That is to say,the reward of good behavior the admiration and the honor that a hero gets, and the most serious punishment he can suffer is to be shamed in front of that community.

也就是说,对正面行为的犒赏,就是得到如英雄般的尊敬和仰慕,而最严厉的惩罚,就是在集体面前当众蒙羞

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