Middle-class Americans still enjoy more luxury than upper-class Americans enjoyed a century earlier, and the fin de siècle was not an especially gloomy time.

现在的中产阶级比一个世纪前的上层阶级享受到更多的奢侈品，而十九世纪末期并不是一个特别的阴暗年代。

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The idea of retail operations where you drive to a store, pick a movie, stand in line and then drive home with the movie will become a quaint relic of the new fin de siècle (look it up!

开车去一家影碟租赁店，挑选影片，排队，然后驾车回家，这种零售店的经营理念将成为新世纪古怪的遗物。

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