Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history - and sometimes the way they behave today - embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities.
正如他们所声称的那样，象征着国家统一，但他们的历史——有时甚至是今天的行为——却体现了过时且无法辩护的特权和不平等。
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。
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。