morality play

常见例句

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.
凯恩斯的天才——一种非常英式的天才——在于强调，我们不能把经济体系当成一出道德剧来对待，而是应该把它当成一种技术挑战。
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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.
只有那些相信经济是一幕道德剧、而他们视为邪恶的人应该受到惩罚的人，才会喜欢那种痛苦的结果。
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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.
而在大多数人看来，这场衰退是由银行家投机性的贪婪所致——这种全然不同的衰退非常符合道德剧的情节。

And so, it's a very interesting play about the morality of developing nuclear weapons.
这是一部非常有意思的电影,讲的是不断发展的核武器的道德问题。
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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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