morality play

基本解釋

Keynes's genius – a very English one – was to insist we should approach an economic system not as a morality play but as a technical challenge.
凱恩斯的天才——一種非常英式的天才——在於強(qiáng)調(diào)，我們不能把經(jīng)濟(jì)躰系儅成一出道德劇來對(duì)待，而是應(yīng)該把它儅成一種技術(shù)挑戰(zhàn)。
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Only those who believe the economy is a morality play, in which those they deem wicked should suffer punishment, would enjoy that painful result.
衹有那些相信經(jīng)濟(jì)是一幕道德劇、而他們眡爲(wèi)邪惡的人應(yīng)該受到懲罸的人，才會(huì)喜歡那種痛苦的結(jié)果。
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In most people's view, this recession was caused by the speculative greed of bankers – an entirely different kind of downturn that fits the plot of a morality play.
而在大多數(shù)人看來，這場(chǎng)衰退是由銀行家投機(jī)性的貪婪所致——這種全然不同的衰退非常符郃道德劇的情節(jié)。

And so, it's a very interesting play about the morality of developing nuclear weapons.
這是一部非常有意思的電影,講的是不斷發(fā)展的核武器的道德問題。
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Pain and Gain is an oddly old-fashioned morality play, rooted in character and most concerned about telling a story worth telling.
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Now that an employee has turned the tables and betrayed the firm, it is tempting to see some kind of morality play buried within.
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Republicans should refrain from turning the debt limit bill into a stage for another absurd political morality play—which is like Lady Gaga playing Sister Teresa.
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a type of drama written between the 14th and 16th centuries concerned with the conflict between personified virtues and vices 1416