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n. 花哨而無價值的東西（trumpery 的複數）
In 1897, to sanctify the trumperies of imperialism.
1897年的慶典是對五光十色的帝國主義政策的禦前恩準。
Trumperies 是一個名詞，指無價值的東西、華而不實的裝飾品或廢話，常帶有欺騙、虛僞或荒謬 的貶義色彩。其核心含義在于強調事物的空洞、膚淺和缺乏實質價值。
以下從不同角度詳細解釋其含義與應用：
核心釋義與貶義色彩
“Trumperies” 指那些外表看似華麗、重要或有吸引力，實則毫無内在價值、微不足道甚至具有欺騙性的事物。它可以指：
這個詞本身就帶有強烈的負面評價，暗示被描述的對象不僅是無用的，而且可能具有迷惑性、荒謬可笑或令人鄙夷。,
文學淵源與經典用法
“Trumpery” 一詞曆史悠久，在經典文學作品中常被用來表達對虛僞、浮誇或愚蠢的批判。例如，莎士比亞在戲劇《暴風雨》（The Tempest）中就使用了這個詞。劇中，精靈愛麗兒斥責密謀造反的安東尼奧、西巴斯辛等人時說道：
“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]”
在這個場景中，愛麗兒化身鷹身女妖斥責阿隆索、安東尼奧和西巴斯辛的罪行後消失，隨後精靈們（Shapes）再次出現，帶着嘲弄的表情和動作（mocks and mows），将之前呈現的盛宴桌子擡走（carrying out the table）。緊接着，普洛斯彼羅在旁白中稱贊愛麗兒扮演鷹身女妖很出色（Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou / Perform’d, my Ariel），并提到他那些地位較低的精靈們（my meaner ministers）也出色地完成了各自的任務（Their several kinds have done）。這裡，精靈們擡走桌子的行為，以及他們之前呈現的盛宴（後來被愛麗兒化作的鷹身女妖斥責為“a grace it had, devouring” – 這頓盛宴有個特點，會吞噬享用它的人），正是普洛斯彼羅魔法制造的幻象的一部分，目的是折磨和震懾他的敵人。這些幻象（包括盛宴和鷹身女妖的斥責）本質上是虛假的、設計來揭露罪惡和施加心理懲罰的工具，完全符合“trumpery”的含義——華而不實、虛幻、帶有欺騙和懲罰意味的無價值之物。普洛斯彼羅稱這些精靈為“my meaner ministers”（我地位較低的仆從/代理人），他們執行的正是制造這些幻象（trumperies）的任務。因此，結合上下文，精靈們擡走桌子這一行為本身，以及他們之前呈現的整個虛幻的宴會，都可以被視為普洛斯彼羅用來實施其懲罰計劃的“trumperies”。
現代語境中的應用
在現代英語中，“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.”（那位政客的演講充滿了 空話，承諾用簡單的方法解決複雜的問題。）或者 “The market stalls were piled high with cheap trumperies aimed at tourists.”（市場的攤位上堆滿了針對遊客的廉價 華而不實的小玩意。）
總結來說，“trumperies” 強烈地表達了說話者對所指事物的蔑視，認為其不僅毫無價值、微不足道，而且往往伴隨着虛僞、欺騙或荒謬的特質，是應該被摒棄或揭露的浮華表象。
根據多個詞典解釋，單詞"trumperies" 是"trumpery" 的複數形式，具體含義和用法如下：
該詞多用于文學或正式語境，日常口語中較少見。若需更多例句或詞源細節，可參考權威詞典（如牛津、柯林斯）。
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