||1:But Mr Judt was no sentimental Europhile.||2:His deep connections with the Czechoslovak opposition under communism gave him rare binocular vision, and an edginess towards those who focused only on the luckier western half of the continent.||3:He detested the shallowness and artificial obscurity of European-born intellectual fashions such as post-modernism and structuralism.||4:In politics, he bemoaned what he saw as the degeneration of the EU into a racket run by an elite class of administrators for the benefit of its richest citizens.||5:Admittedly, the Eurocracy’s enlightened despotism was better than the other kind.||6:But the cult of efficiency was no substitute for democracy and justice.

||1:但是朱蒂先生并非一个感性的亲欧盟主义者。||2:他深入地关注斯洛伐克人在共产主义下的反抗行为，这一点使得他能细微地、犀利地洞察那些只关心那些幸运的富饶西方大陆的人。||3:他讨厌那些浅薄的，诸如前现代化、建筑学等晦涩的欧洲土生土长的学术潮流。||4:在政治方面，朱蒂先生认为欧盟已经堕落成一个由高层精英所操控的非法局面，而这些非法勾当全是为了那些最富有的公民的。||5:他承认，欧洲开明的统治者比起其他的好很多。||6:然而，但是民主和公平是不能用对效率的追求来代替的。

During the boom years, the hope was that injections of money from the national treasury, the European Union and the National Lottery could spruce up post-industrial towns and attract new businesses, easing people off welfare into work. In struggling towns all over Britain, wave-roofed new libraries, civic centres and sixth-form colleges shot up. In Hartlepool, the docks were converted into a pleasure marina.|| The names of these buildings reflected the edginess of the architecture. Hull’s aquarium is called “The Deep”; West Bromwich, near Wolverhampton, got a lavish arts centre named “The Public”.||

||1:在经济全胜时期，人们寄希望于来自国库，欧盟，和国彩的资金注入能够改变后工业化的城镇的面貌，吸引新的投资，为没有福利的居民带来工作。||2:在英国处于挣扎中的城镇，波纹状屋顶的图书馆，市政中心，和预科大学都关门了，在哈特尔浦，码头被用作休闲散步道，这些建筑的名称也反映了该建筑的先潮特色。||3:赫尔的海族馆被称为“深度”在沃尔夫汉普顿的西勃朗姆威奇 有一个奢华的艺术中心被称为“公众”||

Edginess along the “trigger line” , as it has become known, is now the biggest threat to Iraq’s stability.

当前在“触发线”附近发生的激烈争端已成为众人皆知的对伊拉克稳定的最大威胁。

Even if you pride yourself on your cynicism, biting humor, or general edginess , these qualities can be conveyed with warmth.

即便你以自己的玩世不恭、损人幽默、或忧心忡忡而引以为豪，这些特点可以用温暖的方式来传达。

There was none of the edginess that usually marks gatherings in one of the world’s more violent societies.

你丝毫见不到任何急躁的行为——作为世界上暴力文化较浓厚的社会之一，急躁常常是南非各种集会的标志性特征。

What they lack in edginess they make up for in innovation and an openness to experimentation with new media, like video and electronic art.

他们使用创新以及对于新媒体实验艺术诸如视频和电子艺术的开放接受，去弥补他们急躁的这一缺陷。