Should we idealise Christmas past?

过去的圣诞节？

youdao

I'm not trying to glorify or idealise women.

我不是要美化女人或把她们理想化。

youdao

We tend to idealise the past in a ridiculous, cliched way and that's one thing that didn't happen in Paper Moon: you see how people were scared and hungry and willing to do extreme things to survive.

我们在荒谬、艺术中趋向了理想主义，纸月亮中有一件事情不可能发生：你看人们是多么的害怕、饥饿，但是乐意去做其他的事情去生存。

youdao

Though he points out the hypocrisy and contradictions inherent in many social-reform projects of which the Society for the Suppression of Vice was perhaps the most revolting he does not idealise the world that they were trying to improve: a world which employed 12-year-old prostitutes and enjoyed the licensed cruelty of bare-knuckle boxing.

ECONOMIST: English history