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

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。

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It was an unlikely triumph wrested from a moment of national humiliation.

这是在国家蒙羞的时刻夺取的意外的成功。

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Devaluation was seen as a national humiliation, so was resisted until the last minute.

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The fortifications were after all German fortifications - emblems to the French of their own national humiliation.

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The treatment of children in Romania in particular, and the country's many state orphanages, has long been a source of national humiliation.

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