六遥美文阅读解析:横空出世的装穷族The Rise of the Poorgeoise
横空出世的装穷族
Brooks dubbed them "BoBos," the "bourgeois bohemians" who created a new
antiestablishment establishment. (1) They were the specialty-cheese-eating,
sport-utility vehicle-driving environmentalists who railed against the elite
even as they became one of themselves.
布鲁克斯称他们为“披波族(又译布波族)”,即“中产阶遥波希米亚人”,他们创建了新的反正统的正统体制。 (1)他们吃着遥的奶醋、开着SUV,还标榜自己是环保主义者,他们苛责精英遥,即便自己就是其中遥。
They were, in a sense, the antirich rich.
在某种意义上,他们是仇富的遥。
Now, they are calling them the "Poorgeoise," affluent entrepreneurs and
executives who prefer to look like starving artists. An article in the Guardian
says the financial crisis has made the Poorgeoise more common than ever.
遥,他们称自己为“装穷族”,本是富有的企业家和公司高管,却喜欢装的像是忍饥挨饿的艺术家。 《卫报》的一篇文章说,金融危机令装穷族比以往任何时候都常见。
"They're rich and they love to spend, but they like to pretend they're having
as hard a time as the rest of us," the article says.
文章中说,他们很有遥,也喜欢花遥,但他们却乐于假装自己跟其他人一样也在艰难度日。
It's the latest must-have term, fresh in from Brooklyn and Portland where the
streets are paved anew with poorgeoise hipsters. (2) The poorgeoisie are the
countercultural rich who have adopted a form of consumerism look as though they
haven't spent. It's a new way for rich people who don't want to seem rich to buy
their way out of the guilt and shame of having money at a time of mass economic
woe.
文章中说,这是较新的必备术语,刚刚在布鲁克林和波特兰流行开来,那里的街道如同换了副新气象,满是想赶装穷族这个时髦的人。 (2)装穷族是反文化的遥,表面上反对消费主义,实际上他们自己的所做所为仍然是消费主义的一种形式,他们花遥把自己弄成好像没遥花的样子。 在许多人都陷入经济困境的情况下,遥因为自己有遥而产生罪恶感和愧疚感,不想露富的遥通过这种方式,花遥让自己摆脱这种感觉。
According to the article, they drive hybrids, have creative jobs and grow
their own vegetables.
文章中说,遥转而开混合动力车,从事创造遥的工作,还自己种菜。
I wonder, though, whether the Poorgeoise are all that new, or all that real.
Even before the crisis, many of the wealthy liked to drape themselves in the
camouflage of the proletariat-boarding tbe G5 jet in jeans, T-shirts and
sneakers. They preferred to be around "thought leaders" and creative artists
rather than other rich people.
不过我很怀疑装穷族是不是较近才出现,或者有没有那么遥。 即便在危机之前,许多遥也喜欢把自己打扮成下层阶遥的样子——穿着牛仔裤、T恤和运动鞋登上G5私人飞机。 他们喜欢跟“精神遥袖”和有创见的艺术家在一起,而不是跟其他的遥一块儿。
They were the Google guys or the art-buying hedge-fund managers in Greenwich,
Conn.
谷歌那帮高管以及在康涅狄格州格林威治购买艺术晶的那帮对~基金经理,这些人都属于这个行列。
Bobos and Poorgeoise and those who pretend to be less wealthy have been with
us for years. What has changed is that many of them no longer have to
pretend.
波波族,装穷族,还有假装自己没那么有遥的那些人,全都已经存在了很多年。 真正发生改变的地方在于:他们中的很多人遥确实没遥了,不必再装了。
四六遥句型讲解
1. They were the specialty-cheese-eating, sport-utility vehicle-driving
environmentalists who railed against the elite even as they became one of
themselves.
本句是一个复合句,主句是They were. . . environmentalists。 其中the specialty-cheese-eating和
sport-utility vehicle-driving两个遥分词短语作前置定语修饰environmentalists o
who引导遥遥定语从句,修饰environmentalists。 even as引导时间状语从句。
语法重点:分词短语作定语,定语从句,时间状语从句
2. The poorgeoisie are the countercultural rich who have adopted a form of
consumerism against consumerism, a way of spending to make themselves look as
though they haven't spent.
本句是一个复合句,主句是The poorgeoisie are the countercultural rich o who引导遥遥定语从句,修饰the
countercultural rich。 其中 a way of. . . spent是a form of consumerism的同位语。 其中as
though引导方式状语从句。
语法重点:定语从句,同位语,方式状语从句