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In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life – few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers – but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.

在他的案例研究住宅中，拉尔夫·拉普森可能错误地预测了机械革命将如何影响日常生活——很少有美国家庭拥有直升机，尽管大多数最终都拥有了干衣机——但他认为自给自足既是可取的也是不可避免的，这一信念在当时被广泛认同。

If appropriate public policies were in place to help all women – whether CEOs or their children’s caregivers – and all families, Sandberg would be no more newsworthy than any other highly capable person living in a more just society.

如果适当的社会政策能够帮助所有女性——无论是首席执行官还是她们孩子的照看者——以及所有家庭，那么桑德伯格就不会比其他任何在更加公正社会中具备高度能力的人更有新闻价值。

But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure.

但与海湾和亚洲那些专制君主不同，大多数王室家族之所以能够幸存下来，是因为他们允许选民避免寻找一位既无争议又受人尊敬的公众人物的困难过程。

At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.

在托马斯·皮凯蒂和其他经济学家警告收入不平等加剧以及继承财富力量日益增强的时刻，富有的贵族家庭仍然是现代民主国家象征性核心的事实显得非常奇怪。

Even so, these are wealthy families who party with the international 1%, and media intrusiveness makes it increasingly difficult to maintain the right image.

即便如此，这些家族仍然是与国际1%群体一起聚会的富裕家庭，而媒体的过度关注使得维持正确的形象变得越来越困难。