Old Arguments, New Circumstances: On the Relevance and Irrelevance of Max Weber's Vision of Modern Politics

旧论新局:韦伯对现代政治的识见于今之适用与不适用处

These durable impulses of nationalism and ideology that lie behind Soviet policy emphasize the irrelevance of much West debate

苏联政策背后的民族主义和意识形态的这些经久不衰的动力,使西方大量辩论显得更加文不对题。

A President who identifies leadership with public opinion polls dooms himself to irrelevance

一位总统如果把他的领导和民意测验投票结果等同起来,那么他注定将成为一个可有可无的人物。

Issues that once galvanized the electorate fade into irrelevance (Arthur M.Schlesinger,Jr)

曾一度唤醒选民意识的事件已逐渐消失为不相关的事情(孝瑟M.施莱辛格)

||1:Mr. Gates said nations must be responsible for their fair share of the common defense.||2:He warned about the future of NATO unless Europe stops cutting back on defense spending.||3:He said there is "the very real possibility of collective military irrelevance " for the alliance.||4:He said future American leaders may not consider the return on America's investment in NATO worth the cost.

||1:盖茨表示各成员国必须承担共同防御的公平份额。||2:他警告北约未来岌岌可危，除非欧洲各国停止削减国防开支。||3:他说，北约的未来极其可能和共同防御脱离关系。||4:他说，未来的美国领导人可能不会认为美国在北约的投入是值得的。

||1:That was also the reason for the last big split on the Italian right.||2:In 2010 a previous Berlusconi lieutenant, Gianfranco Fini, stormed out of the PdL to form his own party.||3:He and his followers have since been reduced to virtual irrelevance , a point the television magnate made forcefully to Mr Alfano in the gruelling negotiations that failed to prevent the latest split.||4:But there are differences between the two revolts.||5:Mr Alfano's followers in parliament are more numerous: 30 in the 321-member senate and 27 in the 630-seat chamber of deputies.||6:And whereas Mr Fini led his disciples into the wilderness of opposition, Mr Alfano is assuring his of a place in the governing majority, if not the government.

||1:这也是上次意大利政权严重分裂的原因。||2:2010年前贝卢斯科尼中尉芬妮（Gianfranco Fini），迅速的离开自由民主党创建他自己的政党。||3:他和他的跟随者从此沦落为无关紧要的人物，这是在那次激烈的谈判上电视巨头向阿尔法诺强调指出的，尽管这次谈判未能阻止的了最近的这场政党分裂。||4:但是这两次反抗还是有不同之处的。||5:阿尔法诺在国会的跟随者占多数：在321个参议员中有30人，在630个下议院人员中有27人。||6:尽管芬妮只是与自己的跟随者做出公开的反对，但是阿尔法诺在执政岗上保证了自己的地位，就算不是在政府里面。

||1:President Obama's relations with the Democratic Party are increasingly complicated.||2:After a wretched 2014, during which he seemed buffeted by events, Republicans successfully made the mid-term elections a referendum on his competence, prompting Democrats in some conservative states to try to disown him (in vain—most such Democrats lost anyway).||3:Since then, Mr Obama has defied predictions of his imminent irrelevance .||4:He has used his executive powers to shield millions of migrants from deportation, and started to dismantle the (remarkably ineffective) embargo against Cuba.||5:He has sketched out future policies that may define his legacy, from new rules to protect the environment to global trade pacts.||6:Republicans will try to thwart many of his plans.||7:Global events continue to menace him.||8:But as much as his office permits, Mr Obama is setting the agenda.

||1:总统奥巴马与民主党的关系日益复杂。||2:在他被事件冲击的悲惨的2014过去后，共和党成功地把中期选举办成了对他能力的公民投票，推动一些保守州内民主党人对他的否定（这不过是徒劳，因为多数民主党人已经失去了席位）。||3:此后，奥巴马蔑视关于他即将下台的预言。||4:他利用自己的行政权力保护了数百万移民免受驱逐，并废除了对古巴明显无效的禁运政策。||5:他勾勒出未来的政策趋势，从新环境保护规定到全球贸易协定，这些政策有可能成为他史册留名的资本。||6:共和党人试图阻止他的多项计划。||7:全球大事件继续威胁着他。||8:但奥巴马正在自己的权限范围内，力定大局。

Gates Says NATO Could Face 'Irrelevance ' in the Future

盖茨警告北约未来岌岌可危

An even more striking example of America’s new irrelevance is the mechanism devised for policing a ceasefire that has been in place for almost a month.

一个关于美国不想参与此事的更明显的例子就是，美国推出无关紧要的停火机制已有近一个月了。

VC: [In sombre mood] I take your point, Charles, but these people really are an irrelevance , so I wouldn't worry about it.

（神色肃穆）我接受你的观点，查尔斯，但这些人根本不关痛痒，所以我根本不会担心。

It could also save Adobe from slipping into irrelevance as mobile devices increasingly take over functions from desktop browsers.

Flash能够让Adobe逐渐插足移动设备领域，从而将战场从桌面浏览器扩大到移动领域。

In failing to push harder to take on Goldman, the SEC again demonstrated its irrelevance .

SEC未能加劲与高盛较量，再一次证明了它的无关紧要。

In Bellos's new proposal, translation instead "presupposes . . . the irrelevance of the ineffable to acts of communication. "

贝洛斯的新理论提出，恰恰相反，翻译的“先决条件就是……不可译论与沟通行为无关。”

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance . It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

不管是你得到的或是你欠别人的，可你的财产、名誉和权势也都会变成和你毫不相干的东西。

But Cisa, officially representing buyers of about half the world's iron ore, is fast becoming an irrelevance .

但表面上代表了全球近半数铁矿石买家的中钢协，正迅速失去其存在的意义。

So far the party has shown few signs that it knows how to reverse its slide into irrelevance .

到目前为止，并没有迹象表明共和党已知道如何挽回颓势。

Fear of war launched the European project; he hopes that fear of irrelevance will drive it forward.

对战争的恐惧催生了欧盟；他希望对被排除在外的惧怕能够推动这个欧洲大家谈前进。

More worrying, will A-levels become an irrelevance for students aiming for the most selective university courses?

更令人担忧的是，对于那些冲着精心选择的大学课程而来的学生，高考成绩是否会变得毫无用处？

Disclosing the pay of a few bankers, who in theory will remain anonymous, is an irrelevance , except perhaps for them.

公开几个理论上会保持匿名的银行家的薪资，可能对于他们不过是无关紧要的。

The party can unite and strive to widen its appeal, or apportion blame, purify its thinking and contract to irrelevance .

共和党可以团结起来，努力扩大其吸引力，也有可能到处指责，净化思维，最终收缩至无关紧要的地步。

Process tool disconnect (irrelevance ): The process is defined and used without any real reference to using development tools.

过程工具的断裂（不相关性）：在没有任何使用开发工具的参考的情况下来定义和使用过程。

Korea will age and shrink into global irrelevance .

韩国人口将会老化，在国际上成为无足轻重的国家。

Or do the party's ideological divisions doom it to irrelevance ?

或者是党内意识形态的分裂注定与之无关吗？

The fear of irrelevance haunts Euro-types, for all their public boasting about Europe's future might.

尽管欧洲代表们公开夸耀欧洲的未来力量，但担心被边缘化的恐惧感困扰着他们。

US power is being challenged across the Middle East; and Europe seems intent on irrelevance .

美国的势力在中东各地受到挑战；欧洲则似乎想让自己不相干。

Second, the past few months have confirmed even more strongly the near-irrelevance of the president.

其次，过去的几个月更加有力地证明总统近乎被边缘化。

ETA's main problem, however, remains its increasing irrelevance .

然而，埃塔主要的结症在于它愈加本末倒置，得不偿失。

It would take more than Iran cheating on the treaty, however, to nudge the NPT into the abyss of irrelevance .

然而，伊朗违背条约比把NPT推入不受中肯的深渊付出的代价更大。

Were the League to bring down the government, it might condemn itself to irrelevance for years to come.

如果北方联盟推翻政府，就可能在未来几年中为自己的孤僻自责。

If a news reporter dared to begin a story with such a historic irrelevance he would be fired on the spot.

如果某位新闻记者敢以如此离题的历史事件开始一篇报道，会被当场解雇的。

irrelevance rule

不相关法则

irrelevance of official capacity

官方身份的无关性

digress;irrelevance;off the track;stray from the point

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