Adam glorified the pyramids of Egypt, but he discovers that they are built on the misery of slaves.

亚当为埃及的金字塔而荣耀，但是他发现金字塔是建立在奴隶的不幸之上的。

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The restaurant was no more than a glorified fast-food cafe.

这地方美其名曰餐馆，其实只不过是个快餐店而已。

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Planes like the Transition are not glorified cars; they are aircraft strictly for licensed pilots.

像两用机那样的飞机不是漂亮的汽车，他们是给那些有执照的飞行员的。

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I mean, after all from the physicalist's point of view, we're just a kind of glorified robot, able to do all sorts of things that most robots in most science fiction movies can do.

我的意思是,根据物理主义者的观点,人只是一种"高级"的机器人,能做到大多数科幻电影里,大多数机器人所能做到的事

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Now, after seven years and similar missions to South America and Spain, the glorified-seafood-shack concept has morphed into a worldly, gutsy and thoroughly modern restaurant.

WSJ: Seafood Restaurant Meets the Gulf Coast

Goldman was also allowed to become a commercial bank, giving the glorified gambling house something it never had before, the power to get nearly-zero-interest loans from the Fed.

WSJ: Warren Buffett & the Vampire Squid

The culture has glorified the new-found "heroes of our time" says ethnomusicologist and chalga expert Ventsislav Dimov.

BBC: Bulgaria's chalga pop-folk: A cultural rift