Beach life at the Royal Palm is epitomised by a waiter, in starched white bermudas, proffering a silver tray with cold towels and fresh pineapple

一位侍者穿着浆硬的白色百慕大短裤,手托银盘,奉上一叠冷毛巾和一些鲜菠萝,这一景象典型地表现了住在“皇家棕榈饭店”的海滨度假生活。

||1: The shah’s gaudy fete at Persepolis, not far from Cyrus’s tomb, held to celebrate the monarchy’s 2,500th birthday, epitomised a half-century of montazh: a succession of flashy buildings and self-congratulatory statues which helped to conceal the dislocations of a society on fast-forward. ||2: Construction faltered for lack of cement; many of Iran’s ports became clogged with shiploads of imports. ||3: The minister of the shah’s court, driving through Tehran in his Chrysler Imperial in 1969, noticed dingy side streets with “not an ounce of asphalt”. ||4: Lashing out at the grandiose party at Persepolis, Ali Shariati, an Iranian leftist writer, denounced 5,000 years of deprivation and social injustice. ||5: Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq, thundered for the first time that Islam was fundamentally opposed to monarchy.

||1:离伊朗王赛勒斯坟墓不远处的波斯波利斯曾举行了盛大的宴会庆祝伊朗王朝成立2500周年，通过画面剪辑简单回顾了一下伊朗半个世纪以来的历史：一排排高楼大厦，一座座自我标榜的雕像，这些都掩盖了这个快速发展国家背后的混乱。||2:缺乏混凝土结构的建筑摇摇欲坠，船舶上的进口商品使得港口混乱不堪。||3:1969年伊朗王朝法官乘坐克莱斯勒帝国旗舰名车前往德黑兰（Tehran），就注意到街道两边混乱不堪，没有一条柏油路。||4: 伊朗左翼作家Ali Shariati猛烈抨击波斯波利斯的奢华盛会，指责5000年的政权废止和社会的不公。 ||5:当时被流放伊拉克的霍梅尼大声疾呼伊朗人民是坚决反对皇权的。

||1:A family history going back to the eighth century helped him see the continent’s destiny in grand terms, with the European Union a wider and better version of the Holy Roman Empire (his family had headed that lamented outfit until history caught up with it in 1806).||2:He was no fan of the Brussels bureaucracy, but promoted the integration his name epitomised : common culture, open borders and, above all, no more wars.||3:Only the meanest Austrians remained uncharmed.

||1:有个能追溯到8世纪的家族史使奥托能从宏观上看出欧洲大陆的命运：欧盟是个比神圣罗马帝国（他的家族曾统治着那个令人遗憾的帝国直至1806年被历史淘汰）更好，更宽泛的形式。||2:他不是布鲁塞尔官僚作风的追随者，但仍提议将他的名字视为大陆融合的缩影：共同的文化，开放的边疆，还有最重要的——不再有战争。||3:只有最不入流的奥地利人才抱着历史不放。

The overlap between politics and profit was epitomised by GerhardSchrö der, a former German chancellor.

GerhardSchrö；der，某前德国大臣，可谓是此类政治和经济利益交集的化身。

The city was then the capital of Yugoslavia, a country that epitomised the group’s uneasy balance between East and West in the cold war.

贝尔格莱德原为南斯拉夫首都，在冷战期间，该组织艰难地平衡东西方关系，这个国家成了的一个典型例子。

A: Traditional banking models, as epitomised by Sberbank, will benefit from a flight to quality.

答：以俄罗斯最大银行Sberbank为代表的传统银行业将受益于投资者转向高质量资产的行为。

Its affordable, trendy clothes epitomised casual cool.

盖普时髦而价位适中的服装一度是休闲和炫酷的代表。

In the opinion of the cultural critic Barbara Creed, for instance, Scott’s film epitomised what she refers to as "the monstrous feminine" .

例如在文化评论家芭芭拉·克里德（BarbaraCreed）看来，她更倾向于斯科特在电影中表现的主题是“可怕的女性”。

Since the 1960s, he argues, society has been marked by a growing sense of cultural relativism, epitomised by anthropology.

他辩称，自上世纪60年代以来，社会的特点一直是文化相对主义的兴起，集中体现在人类学方面。

It also epitomised the atmosphere of lawlessness and impunity that has flourished in Russia in recent years.

同时还也反映出了近年来俄罗斯一股目无法纪，犯罪分子逍遥法外的浊流汹涌。

Mr Walesa, whose election to the presidency epitomised Poland’s transition to democracy, has long since left the political mainstream.

瓦文萨成为总统的那次选举正是波兰向着民主制度转型的典型缩影，但他早已离开政界的主流；

To differentiate its brand, Australian Gold developed a campaign, "Live the gold life" , which epitomised beaches, sun and fun.

为了彰显该品牌的与众不同，AustralianGold发动了一项“过黄金生活”运动，具体表现在海滩、阳光和娱乐上。

Why has the creativity of the San Francisco area, epitomised by Silicon Valley, developed while other regions have languished?

为什么以硅谷（SiliconValley）为代表的旧金山地区的创造力得到了发展，而其它地区却停滞不前？

The fashion was epitomised by Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal side in the early part of the decade.

新世纪的头几年里，温格的阿森纳成为了这一边后卫潮流的缩影。

THE New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry’s deep malaise.

曾经是美国最伟大的报纸之一的《纽约时报》现在正深陷在行业的低迷之中。

That sentiment epitomised the behaviour of many technology companies in the late 20th century, from Intel to Oracle and Microsoft.

这种情绪概括了20世纪末很多科技公司的行为，从英特尔到甲骨文（Oracle）和微软（Microsoft），都是如此。

Any lessening of US forces would risk a power vacuum that might be filled by old rivalries, epitomised by festering Sino-Japanese mistrust.

只要减少美国军队，就有可能带来权力真空，而这种真空可能会被昔日的敌对状态所填补——中日之间的猜疑恶化就是其缩影。

The risk element of every transfer is epitomised by the contrast between the current worlds of Ronaldo and Reyes.

最能说明每次转会的风险因素的莫过于当前世界上形成对比的罗纳尔多和雷耶斯。