We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.
我们与20世纪初到第二次世界大战前夕英国报纸上发表的那些不那么聚焦的评论文章更是相去甚远，那时报纸纸张极其便宜，而风格高雅的艺术评论则被视为其出版物的装饰。
Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about.
他们的工作是严肃的，即使是那些轻描淡写地展示学识的评论家，比如乔治·伯纳德·肖和欧内斯特·纽曼，也让人放心地相信他们知道自己在写什么。
Similarly, some Wall Street investment firms armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.
同样，一些华尔街投资公司通过拥有金融产品的专利来武装自己，即使他们在法庭上反对这种做法的案件中持有立场。
The researchers' argument stems from a simple observation about social influence: With the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey - whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media, not interpersonal, influence - even the most influential members of a population simply don't interact with that many others.
研究人员的论点源于对社会影响的一个简单观察：除了像奥普拉·温弗瑞这样少数几位其巨大影响力主要源于媒体而非人际影响的名人外，人群中最有影响力的人实际上并不与太多其他人互动。
Successful markets require independent and even combative standard-setters.
成功的市场需要独立甚至具有对抗性的标准制定者。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。