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n. 花哨而无价值的东西（trumpery 的复数）
In 1897, to sanctify the trumperies of imperialism.
1897年的庆典是对五光十色的帝国主义政策的御前恩准。
Trumperies 是一个名词，指无价值的东西、华而不实的装饰品或废话，常带有欺骗、虚伪或荒谬 的贬义色彩。其核心含义在于强调事物的空洞、肤浅和缺乏实质价值。
以下从不同角度详细解释其含义与应用：
核心释义与贬义色彩
“Trumperies” 指那些外表看似华丽、重要或有吸引力，实则毫无内在价值、微不足道甚至具有欺骗性的事物。它可以指：
这个词本身就带有强烈的负面评价，暗示被描述的对象不仅是无用的，而且可能具有迷惑性、荒谬可笑或令人鄙夷。,
文学渊源与经典用法
“Trumpery” 一词历史悠久，在经典文学作品中常被用来表达对虚伪、浮夸或愚蠢的批判。例如，莎士比亚在戏剧《暴风雨》（The Tempest）中就使用了这个词。剧中，精灵爱丽儿斥责密谋造反的安东尼奥、西巴斯辛等人时说道：
“You are three men of sin… / … whose wraths to guard you from / … / Would take the tender of my worth, being so little. / I and my fellows / Are ministers of Fate: the elements, / Of whom your swords are temper’d, may as well / Wound the loud winds, or with bemock’d-at stabs / Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish / One dowle that’s in my plume; my fellow-ministers / Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt, / Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, / And will not be uplifted. But remember / (For that’s my business to you) that you three / From Milan did supplant good Prospero; / Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it, / Him and his innocent child; for which foul deed / The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have / Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures, / Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso, / They have bereft; and do pronounce by me / Lingering perdition, worse than any death / Can be at once, shall step by step attend / You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from— / Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls / Upon your heads—is nothing but heart-sorrow / And a clear life ensuing. /He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music enter the Shapes again, and dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the table [of the banquet they had presented earlier] / PROSPERO [Aside]:Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou / Perform’d, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring. / Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated / In what thou hadst to say; so, with good life / And observation strange, my meaner ministers / Their several kinds have done. My high charms work, / And these mine enemies are all knit up / In their distractions. They now are in my power; / And in these fits I leave them, while I visit / Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown’d, / And his and mine loved darling. / [Exit above] / GONZALO: I’ the name of something holy, sir, why stand you / In this strange stare? / ALONSO: O, it is monstrous, monstrous! / Methought the billows spoke and told me of it; / The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, / That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced / The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. / Therefore my son i’ th’ ooze is bedded; and / I’ll seek him deeper than e’er plummet sounded / And with him there lie mudded. / [Exit] / SEBASTIAN: But one fiend at a time, / I’ll fight their legions o’er. / ANTONIO: I’ll be thy second. / [Exeunt Sebastian and Antonio] / GONZALO: All three of them are desperate; their great guilt, / Like poison given to work a great time after, / Now ‘gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you / That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly / And hinder them from what this ecstasy / May now provoke them to. / ADRIAN: Follow, I pray you. / [Exeunt omnes]”
在这个场景中，爱丽儿化身鹰身女妖斥责阿隆索、安东尼奥和西巴斯辛的罪行后消失，随后精灵们（Shapes）再次出现，带着嘲弄的表情和动作（mocks and mows），将之前呈现的盛宴桌子抬走（carrying out the table）。紧接着，普洛斯彼罗在旁白中称赞爱丽儿扮演鹰身女妖很出色（Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou / Perform’d, my Ariel），并提到他那些地位较低的精灵们（my meaner ministers）也出色地完成了各自的任务（Their several kinds have done）。这里，精灵们抬走桌子的行为，以及他们之前呈现的盛宴（后来被爱丽儿化作的鹰身女妖斥责为“a grace it had, devouring” – 这顿盛宴有个特点，会吞噬享用它的人），正是普洛斯彼罗魔法制造的幻象的一部分，目的是折磨和震慑他的敌人。这些幻象（包括盛宴和鹰身女妖的斥责）本质上是虚假的、设计来揭露罪恶和施加心理惩罚的工具，完全符合“trumpery”的含义——华而不实、虚幻、带有欺骗和惩罚意味的无价值之物。普洛斯彼罗称这些精灵为“my meaner ministers”（我地位较低的仆从/代理人），他们执行的正是制造这些幻象（trumperies）的任务。因此，结合上下文，精灵们抬走桌子这一行为本身，以及他们之前呈现的整个虚幻的宴会，都可以被视为普洛斯彼罗用来实施其惩罚计划的“trumperies”。
现代语境中的应用
在现代英语中，“trumperies” 常用于批判性地描述：
例如：“The politician’s speech was full of trumperies, promising easy solutions to complex problems.”（那位政客的演讲充满了 空话，承诺用简单的方法解决复杂的问题。）或者 “The market stalls were piled high with cheap trumperies aimed at tourists.”（市场的摊位上堆满了针对游客的廉价 华而不实的小玩意。）
总结来说，“trumperies” 强烈地表达了说话者对所指事物的蔑视，认为其不仅毫无价值、微不足道，而且往往伴随着虚伪、欺骗或荒谬的特质，是应该被摒弃或揭露的浮华表象。
根据多个词典解释，单词"trumperies" 是"trumpery" 的复数形式，具体含义和用法如下：
该词多用于文学或正式语境，日常口语中较少见。若需更多例句或词源细节，可参考权威词典（如牛津、柯林斯）。
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