||1:As backroom special advisers do now, the author wrote speeches, drafted and redrafted policy papers, and negotiated electoral manifestos, all the while observing the foibles of his front-of-stage bosses.||2:In what is clearly the emotional heart of the book, he chronicles the turbulence surrounding the decline and fall of Old Labour, the fight against the hard left, the economic debacle of the mid-1970s and the disastrous election of 1979—all with a keen eye for strategy and personality.||3:There is delight in small details: the chill that settled on a lunch party when the young jobseeker had the temerity to hit the croquet ball of Roy Jenkins, a Labour grandee, into the flower bed, or Crosland's views on the inanities of ambassadors' wives.
||1:就像如今幕后特别顾问所从事的工作一样，作者当时也写演讲稿，对政策文件起草了又起草，协商选举宣言，同时观察着台上领袖的缺点。||2:运用自己对策略和人性的敏锐感，他在编年史内写下老工党衰退和倒台那段时期的骚乱，反左派的斗争，也记录下二十世纪七十年代中期的经济崩溃，1979年那场极糟的选举。||3:有些细节很明了：在午餐会上一名年轻的求职者鲁莽地把工党贵族Roy Jenkins的槌球打进了花圃里的事，亦或是Crosland关于大使夫人的浅薄方面的一些言论。
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1.A nonsensical remark or action.
‘they utter whatever _inanities_ will get them elected’
‘Delving deep into their oeuvre, the band blasted out their tiresome _inanities_ to the delighted faithful.’
2.Lack of sense or meaning; silliness.
‘he commented on the breathtaking _inanity_ of the board's decision’
‘The general spirit of bonhomie and celebration lifts even curmudgeons like me over the worst stretches of _inanity_ .’
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‘they utter whatever _inanities_ will get them elected’
