“Ligeia”, which Poe thought his best grotesque story, is now, for most readers, a jumble of morbid self-pity, diabolism, and gimcrack Gothicism

波自认《莉盖娅》是他怪诞小说中的上品，现在大部分读者认为不过是病态自怜，魔鬼附身，浮华怪诞的大杂烩而已。

The shelves groan with an array of gimcrack gifts from fans:a stuffed piranha fish.a ceramic.bull,a papier-maché replica of an Apollo moonwalker(Harry F.Waters)

架子因在一大批来自倾慕者们的小破玩意儿的压迫下呻吟:一个塞得满满的食人鱼…一个瓷器…一只公牛，一个纸型阿波罗月球行走者的复制品(哈里F.沃特斯)

gimcrack ornaments

虚华而无用的饰物.

||1: The Nazis sought his help, hoping for some stardust from a real ex-empire to give lustre to their gimcrack one. ||2: But the prince detested them, having slogged his way through “Mein Kampf”. ||3: As a student in Berlin, he irked Hitler by refusing to meet him. ||4: In 1938, as Austria’s leaders quailed before the Anschluss, the Habsburgs’ scion offered to return and rally resistance. ||5: Luckily, he didn’t get there. The Nazis ordered him to be shot on sight.

||1:纳粹寻求他的帮助，希望从一个真正的旧帝国那里获得荣耀，为他们自己的小玩意增光。||2:但是奥托憎恶他们，埋首于他自己的“我的战场”。||3:作为一名在柏林上学的学生，因为拒绝见希特勒而惹恼了他。||4:1938年，奥地利的领导者在纳粹德国吞并奥地利时畏缩了，哈普斯堡皇室提议奥托回去，大家集结起来一起抵抗。||5:幸亏他没去，纳粹下令对他就地处决。

But the scars of the Soviet era, and the gaudy gimcrack results of 20 years of crony capitalism, are visible too.

但是苏联时代留下的创伤，和二十年的资本主义制度带来的花哨的小玩意儿，仍清晰可辨。

The Nazis sought his help, hoping for some stardust from a real ex-empire to give lustre to their gimcrack one.

纳粹寻求他的帮助，希望从一个真正的旧帝国那里获得荣耀，为他们自己的小玩意增光。

Gimcrack shops offer cash-remittance services to distant lands.

装修廉价的商店提供向较远地方的现金汇款服务。