Only months ago, the idea that Mr Bush would publicly lambast America’s corporate bosses was laughable

可是就在几个月前，布什公开抨击美国大公司老板的想法却是荒谬可笑的。

||1: Mr Gray’s book is darker, grittier and more ambitious. Mr Garton Ash is happy to lambast the West’s specific shortcomings but Mr Gray sets out to unpick the shallow philosophical foundations of the whole edifice, in particular the modern myths about progress and perfectibility. ||2: He demolishes the theory that we have reached the “end of history”, the dogmas of secular liberalism, the weaknesses of financial casino capitalism and the limits of energy-intensive economic growth. ||3: Such targets deserve his scrutiny and Mr Gray’s criticisms are cogent. But he tends to overdo it. Again and again (and again) he attacks the people he calls “neoliberals” without pinning down whom (apart from Tony Blair) he is attacking. ||4: The reader is left feeling a straw man has been dissected.

||1:格雷的著作则更富阴郁而强硬的气息，其创作野心也更为远大。加顿·阿什乐于抨击西方存在的具体缺陷，但格雷却着手拆解整个体系的浅薄哲学根基，尤其是关于进步和完美性的现代神话。||2:在他的笔下，人类已达到“历史的终结”之理论，世俗自由主义的教义、金融赌场资本主义（的种种缺陷）以及能源密集型经济增长（的极限）被一一推翻。||3:由格雷对此类问题加以缜密研究，实非牛刀杀鸡之举，而其批判也颇为中肯；不过他却往往走得太远，一次一次（又一次）地，格雷对他所称的“新自由主义者”加以口诛笔伐，然而却几乎从不指明其具体的抨击对象（托尼·布莱尔是一个例外）。||4:这让读者们不禁感到，格雷所剖开的只是一个稻草人而已。

||1:Fast-food firms have to be a thick-skinned bunch.||2:Health experts regularly lambast them for peddling food that makes people fat.||3:Critics even complain that McDonald’s, whose golden arches symbolise calorie excess, should not have been allowed to sponsor the World Cup.||4:These are things fast-food firms have learnt to cope with and to deflect.||5:But not perhaps for much longer.||6:The burger business faces more pressure from regulators at a time when it is already adapting strategies in response to shifts in the global economy.

||1:健康专家因其向人们兜售令人肥胖的食品而不断猛烈抨击快餐业。||2:因而快餐业不得不成为一个厚着脸皮生存的群体。||3:评论家门甚至抱怨到有着代表超高热量金色拱形标志的麦当劳不应该被允许赞助世界杯。||4:虽然有些事情快餐业已经学会去处理和转移。||5:但是他们的手去无法伸得更长。||6:当汉堡经济在全球经济条件下正在做出适应性的战略部署作为回应来扭转局势的时候，却要面临着来自监管者方面更多的压力。

The Ethiopians also lambast Human Rights Watch for not visiting the Ogaden, knowing that it was they who blocked the visit.

报告还严厉指责了人权组织没有走访奥加登进行实地考察，但知道正是他们阻止了人权观察的访问。

The lyrics ridicule Gadhafi and lambast him for his treatment of the country in the past four decades.

歌曲嘲讽了卡扎菲，抨击了他过去四十多年里对国家的所作所为。

A few hours later, several hundred adults gather at the edge of the playground to lambast a government plan for a new columbarium nearby.

几个小时过后，几百个成年人聚在操场周边抗议政府在附近建设骨灰堂的计划。

APUNTIL a few years ago it was easy for critics of South Africa’s government to lambast its inadequate efforts in fighting AIDS.

几年前，批评家很容易抓到南非政府的把柄，来抨击他们抗击艾滋病不力。

Health experts regularly lambast them for peddling food that makes people fat.

健康专家们经常性地因他们所兜售的食物使人肥胖，而对这些公司严厉斥责。

They may well lambast Mr Obama for expanding the federal deficit; but it is less impressive when they are unable to suggest alternatives.

他们或许会因联邦赤字的攀升而狠狠地抨击奥巴马，但当无法提出替代方案时，就开始低调了。

They lambast tax havens for sucking in the money of foreigners and multinational companies.

他们严厉斥责避税港吞噬了外国人和跨国公司的钱。