This Herzog, this man of many blessings, for some reason had endured a frigid, middlebrow , castrating female in his bed, given her his name and made her the instrument of creation

就是这位赫索格,这位福星高照的人,为了某种原因,居然容忍一个冷酷的、教养差劲的、使男人丧失元气的女人做妻子,把姓氏给她,使她成为传宗接代的工具。

||1: Ms Kessler-Harris largely defends Hellman against her harshest critics by placing her and her choices—such as her defence of communism and her refusal to embrace feminism—in the context of her times. ||2: Hellman's politics were often naive, but she was hardly alone. ||3: She had the “sense of justice of a very small child”, according to a friend, and she conveyed this moral certainty in her plays. ||4: But she was a bit player in intellectual circles, a celebrity whose outspokenness earned her disproportionate attention. ||5: So why has Hellman become a symbol for all that went wrong in the ideological battles of the 20th century? ||6: Ms Kessler-Harris argues that it may have something to do with the fact that she was a brassy, unattractive and sexually voracious woman who reaped commercial success from “middlebrow ” work.

||1:凯斯勒·哈里斯女士替海尔曼讲话，反对那些针对她的苛刻的批评。主要是通过把海尔曼放在她所处的时代来看待她这个人和她的决定。诸如，防卫共产主义，拒绝拥抱女权主义。||2:海尔曼的政治活动通常是天真幼稚的，但是却都不是她一个人的行为。||3:根据她一个朋友的说法，她有一种“一个非常小的小孩子的正义感”，这在她的剧本中有所体现。||4:在知识分子层中，她可以说算是跑龙套的，可是她的坦率直言，赚足了人们的眼球。||5:在二十世纪意识形态竞争焦灼的年代，到底是什么让海尔曼成了一个标志？||6:凯斯勒·哈里斯女士认为，这来源于这样一个事实，她脸皮厚，长的不好看，性贪婪，但是却能从极普通的工作中攫取大量的商业财富。

||1:In lesser hands Ms Nasar's story might have degenerated into a series of pen portraits: tittle-tattle for the middlebrow .||2:But she unifies her account with a series of big questions.How, for example, did humanity escape from the grinding poverty that has been its lot through most of human history? Why was a static society replaced by a dynamic one? And how best to cope with the booms and busts that have been capitalism's peculiar contribution to human life.

||1:如果娜萨女士文笔稍差一些，这些故事就要成了一堆钢笔肖像速写，成了关于一帮知识界平庸人物的杂淡。||2:但是她用一些大问题对叙述加以统一，比如，人类是如何从占据其历史大部分时间的凄惨贫穷中逃离出来的？比如，为何动态社会取代了静态社会？又比如，资本主义给人类生活带来它特有的贡献——经济繁荣与衰退的循环往复，对此什么才是最好的处理方式。

In his view TED really stands for middlebrow , megachurch infotainment.

在他看来，TED实际上代表的是通俗，大教派，资讯娱乐。

"Median" also means moderate and harmonious, and becomes the core of the Confucianist philosophy theory-the main content of "middlebrow " .

“中和”也就是指“适中、适度与和谐”，并成为儒家人生哲学中核心理论“中庸”的主要内容。

To inherit and develop the middlebrow that is important for construct the Harmonious society and economy and science.

继承和发扬中庸道统，对于促进和谐社会建设和经济社会科学发展大有裨益。

In lesser hands Ms Nasar's story might have degenerated into a series of pen portraits: tittle-tattle for the middlebrow .

要是写书的人水平差一点，纳萨尔女士的故事可能会退化为一系列人物特写：普通人闲聊的谈资。

mean;middlebrow;middle of the road

中庸