dukes

1. Dukes and cardinals , oligarchs and financiers , fixers and traders become very wealthy not by virtue of their talents but as a result of the position they occupy .

公爵和主教、寡头和金融家、毒贩和交易员之所以变得非常富有，不是靠自己的才华，而是凭借他们所占据的位置。

2. Chief executives now behave like dukes , extractingfrom their financial estates sums out of all proportion to the work they do orthe value they generate , sums that sometimes exhaust the businesses theyparasitise .

首席执行官现在表现得像公爵，从他们金融产业所有工作和生成的价值里按比例提成，其所寄生以攫取的财富有时耗尽了企业的气血。

3. But his finest work is drawn from life , and designed to satisfy the vanity and lust of magnificent dukes , corrupt popes and powerful emperors . It sharpens the senses and gives pleasure .

但是他最好的作品来源于生活，是为满足那些高高在上的公爵、贪污的教皇和掌权的统治者心中的空虚和欲望而画，刺激了他们的感官，又提供了满足感。

4. The pope was stripped of most of his dominions , the bourbon dynasty was exiled from naples , the dukes of central italy lost their thrones , and the kings of piedmont became monarchs of italy .

教皇被剥夺了大部分领地，那不勒斯波旁王朝遭流放，意大利中部公爵失去了王位，皮埃蒙特国王成为意大利君主。

5. In young 's fable , the academically talented working class happily join the elite . But the less talented resent them even more than they did the old dukes and duchesses .

在杨的寓言里面，工人阶级中学业优异的人幸运地加入了精英阶层，但是下层人士对他们的仇恨却甚于对曾经的公爵和公爵夫人们。

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