世故

Now it must be taken for granted that simplisity of life and thought is the highest and sanest ideal for civilization and culture, that when a civilization loses simplisity and the sophisticated do not return to unsophisitication, civilization becomes increasingly full of troubles and degenerates.

现在，我们必须承认，简朴的生活和思想是文明和文化最高级最健全的理想状态，当一种文明失去了简朴，老于世故的人们无法回归纯朴的时候，文明就会充满问题，日益退化。

First, there are the most seasoned Chinese America watchers, all sophisticated realists.

第一，有中国最老练的美国观察家，他们都是久经世故的现实主义者。

But Lord Mandelson—whose 14-year estrangement from Mr Brown ended only when he was astonishingly brought back into the cabinet last year—is too canny an operator to have believed that such panegyrics alone would wash.

曼德尔森勋爵——他去年出人意料地回到内阁，结束了与布朗的14年交恶——这位老于世故的背后推手，决不会相信区区几句溢美之词就会把一切洗刷干净。

Offloads personal work.

看起来老于世故，卸除个人工作。

Shanghai in Wang\' s imagination is emphasized on the material aspect of daily life, reflecting three aspects, namely space-time construction of Shanghai citizen society, enjoying rich foods and fine attire and the way of the world.

王安忆想像中的上海是凸现于日常生活中的物质都市，表现在上海市民社会的时空建构、锦衣玉食及世故人情三个方面。

He met a group of wealthy and cynical Jews, Americans, Belgians, and Germans, but he judged their sophistication painful and their affectations boring.

他遇到了一群又有钱又玩世不恭的犹太人、美国人、比利时人和德国人，不过他认为他们那种世故是令人痛苦的，他们那些虚伪做作很讨厌。

The physician made a physical examination to the sophisticated philosopher and phys icist.

医生给世故的哲学家和物理学家作了体检。

As much as men might like to think that they respond to women in a thoughtful, sophisticated manner, it appears that at least to some degree, their preferences and predilections are, in a word, primitive.

虽然近乎所有男性自认为他们对女性所作的反应是出于深思熟虑或谙于世故，然而，他们的偏爱嗜好，至少在某种程度上，简而言之，是天生的。

He has nothing of the supple form or slippery manner of the modern Greek about him.

他没有一点当今希腊人那种柔软的身段和圆滑世故的神态。

Leavis, believed his Clark Lectures were characterised by "intellectual nullity".

这两本书中的福斯特让人觉得捉摸不定、老于世故。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了