英国汽车在记忆中一度被称为车轮上的跳板，如今已成为那个愚昧时代的国耻象征。

British cars, once memorably described as a skip on wheels, have come to embody the national humiliation of that benighted era.

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像阿莱格罗和莫里斯·玛丽娜那样的英国汽车，在人们的记忆中一度被称之为车轮上的跳板，现在成为了那个愚昧时代国耻的象征。

British cars like the Allegro and the Morris Marina, once memorably described as a skip on wheels, have come to embody the national humiliation of that benighted era.

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过去的15年，愚昧而又变幻无常的繁荣时代晃花了毕业生们的眼。

For the past 15 years or so, graduates have emerged blinking into the white light of a witless and capricious boom time.

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It's an invention of a barbarous age which a blind and ignorant population will accept only to its own vexation, hindrance, and constraint.

它是只有蛮荒时代愚昧无知的人们才会接受,以自寻烦恼，阻碍，和限制的。

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