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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With his followers he burned “shameful” items (eg, paintings, wigs, harps and chessboards) on the Bonfire of the Vanities in the 1490s, before he was ex-communicated, hanged and incinerated himself.

和他的追随者一起，萨佛纳罗拉将那些“可耻的”物品（例如绘画，假发，竖琴和棋盘）全部一起在15世纪90年代的虚荣之火中付之一炬。

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In The Bonfire of the Vanities, the composite characters that Tom Wolfe painted so vividly in his novel were oversimplified and uninspiring on screen.

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