She appears quite doddery

她显得十分衰老。

||1:For their employers the advantages are more immediate.||2:Prospective MPs increasingly enjoy high-flying jobs (often elsewhere in politics) before running for office, so may have less time to run their own campaigns.||3:Local party machines even in crucial marginal seats can be doddery , disorganised and dominated by the few truculent oddballs inclined to turn up to meetings.||4:Organisers can purportedly inject a dose of youthful dynamism into such outfits.||5:They report to national headquarters, so faithfully enact party strategies.||6:They must also hit monthly canvassing targets.||7:The Labour Party circulates rankings comparing organisers’ results.||8:Paddy Ashdown, a pugnacious grandee, polices the performance of their Lib Dem counterparts.

||1:对于他们的雇主来说，带来的益处是更直接的。||2:未来的国会议员在竞选公职前，越来越享受有挑战性的工作（通常是政治中的其他领域），因此，他们可能只有很少的时间运作自己的竞选活动。||3:当地正处于关键边缘时期的政党组织，就会被那些有意将会议声势放大的好斗的有心人士控制，变得只有毫无生气的散兵游勇。||4:而组织者可以给这些组织注入新鲜活力。||5:他们向全国总部报告，并切实的制定党的政策。||6:他们还必须达到每月的游说目标。||7:工党还发布对组织者进行的排名。||8:帕迪·艾什顿，一个好斗的名门望族人士，监督他们自由民主党对手的各方面表现。

||1:It must feel good to be back on top—and this time, almost liked.||2:Twenty years ago Microsoft was considered an evil empire, scheming for domination and embroiled in a bruising antitrust battle with America’s Justice Department.||3:Five years ago, having dozed through the rise of social media and smartphones, it was derided as a doddery has-been.||4:Now, after several stellar quarters—this month it reported revenue of $33.7bn, up by 12% year on year—Microsoft is once again the world’s most valuable listed company, worth over $1trn.||5:How did Satya Nadella, the boss since 2014, pull off this comeback?||6:And with American trustbusters starting on a new review of “search, social media, and some retail services online”—ie, Google, Facebook and Amazon—what can the other tech giants learn from Microsoft’s experience?

||1:回到巅峰感觉一定很好，这一次，几乎爱惨了。||2:20年前，微软被认为是一个邪恶的帝国，图谋垄断，并卷入了与美国司法部的激烈的反垄断斗争。||3:五年前，随着社交媒体和智能手机的兴起，它一直在沉默，因此被嘲笑为老态龙钟。||4:现在，在经历了几个出色的季度之后，微软再次成为世界上最有价值的上市公司，市值超过1万亿美元。||5:2014年上任的萨蒂亚?纳德拉是如何让微软东山再起的？||6:随着美国反垄断机构开始重新审视“搜索、社交媒体和一些在线零售服务”（指谷歌、Facebook和亚马逊），其他科技巨头能从微软的经验中学到什么？

||1:FEW Britons feel passionate about buses.||2:Unlike the railways, they spur few protests or angry letters in local newspapers.||3:On August 26th IPPR, a left-leaning think-tank influential in Labour circles, attempted to change this.||4:Buses “seem to be the forgotten aspect of public transport”, the authors of a new report sighed.||5:But their proposed prescription is almost as doddery as an old Routemaster.

||1:少有不列颠人对公共汽车表示愤怒的。||2:不像铁路，他们很少在当地报纸上对公共汽车提出抗议或者向报社投寄发泄怒气的信件。||3:在8月26日，公共政策研究所—一个在工党圈内有影响力的左倾智库——试图改变这种状况。||4:在一则新报道中，有作者叹道公共汽车“看来已经成了公共交通系统中被遗忘的一环”。||5:不过他们提出的建议基本上跟老司路者一样老掉牙了。

When most people look at pictures of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, they see the sweet, doddery grandmother-of-the-nation.

大多数人看着伊丽莎白·鲍斯-莱昂（ElizabethBowes-Lyon）的照片时，他们看到的是位性格温和、衰老憔悴的王太后。

Those that remain are increasingly doddery .

留下来的也是日趋老化。

The next Facebook is increasingly likely to be founded in India or Indonesia rather than middle-aged America or doddery old Europe.

下一个Facebook越来越可能出现在印度或者印尼，而不会是中年人的美国，更不会是步履蹒跚的老年欧洲。