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n.阿斯特¹⁰⁰
Noun:
British politician born in the United States who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons 1879-1964United States capitalist born in Germany who made a fortune in fur trading 1763-1848 Your host on tonight's show is Max Astor.今晚表演节目的主持人是马克斯·阿斯特。 Brooke Astor was a longtime trustee of the Metropolitan, sitting on its board, the most powerful club in New York, from1964 to1983, when she was made emeritus.
从1964年到1983年，布鲁克·阿斯特夫人是大都会的长期理事，是纽约最有影响力的俱乐部董事之一，退休后成为名誉董事。 yeeyan
In October1949, in his room at University College hospital, he married Sonia Brownell, with David Astor as best man.
1949年十月，在大学学院医院的病房中，他和索尼娅布朗内尔结婚，挚友阿斯特作为伴郎。 yeeyan
John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company made him the richest man in America in the1840s. But it never consisted of more than a handful of people.
1840年，约翰·雅各·阿斯特所经营的美国毛皮企业，员工人数十分有限，但依然让他成为全美最为富有的人。 yeeyan
Speaking to the Observer last week, Richard Blair says he believes, from family legend, that Astor was taken aback by the enthusiasm of Orwell's response.
上周接受“观察者”访问的时候，理查德·布莱尔表示他相信，当时阿斯特根本没想到奥威尔会对那地方产生极大的热情。 yeeyan
The arrogance of big money, Mrs Astor wrote once, “ is one of the most unappealing of characteristics”.
阿斯特尔夫人曾写到：财大气粗的傲慢，是最让人讨厌的个性特征之一。 ecocn
“ I ought to have done this two months ago, ” he told Astor, “ but I wanted to get that bloody book finished.”
“两个月前就该来报道了，”他告诉阿斯特，“但我总想着要先把书写完。” yeeyan
After the tawdry saga, this biography by Frances Kiernan, a former editor at the New Yorker, goes some way towards restoring Mrs Astor to her throne.
在这个美丽的传奇过后，《纽约人》前任编辑弗朗斯•基尔南为她立传，为的是让亚士多夫人重回宝座。 ecocn
He joked to Astor that it wouldn't surprise him “ if you had to change that profile into an obituary”.
他对阿斯特开玩笑说“假如你把素描改成讣告”也不会感到意外。 yeeyan
Her main lures would always be her charm and wit, and she had two other husbands before she married Astor.
她最吸引人的地方莫过于她的魅力与智慧，在嫁给亚士多先生之前，亚士多夫人还成过两次家。 ecocn
Her son took the Astor seat in 1986, and subsequently became an emeritus trustee as well.
1986年，她的儿子坐上了她的位子，之后也成了名誉董事。 yeeyan
In 1953, at the age of51, Brooke married Vincent Astor, heir to one of New York's biggest fortunes.
1953年51岁的布洛可嫁给纽约最大财富的继承人文生•亚士多。 ecocn
Initially, Astor offered it to Orwell for a holiday.
起初，阿斯特建议奥威尔到这里度假。 yeeyan
Like the best American heroines, Mrs Astor had relatively modest beginnings.
像美国所有最伟大的女英雄们一样，亚士多夫人出身相对卑微。 ecocn
Mrs Astor set great store by good manners, civility, kind remarks and the careful handling of umbrellas; Mrs Helmsley believed in loud words and elbows.
阿斯特尔夫人重视礼议，行为端庄，说话时态度和蔼可亲，总是审慎地举着雨伞；海茉斯丽夫人则信奉大喝雷鸣与肘关节即武力。 ecocn
Mrs Astor, a gentle soul, was upset when her first father- in-law, a colonel, yelled at his secretaries.
当阿斯特尔夫人的第一任任职陆军上校的岳父在办公室里大嚷大叫时，拥有一颗高贵心灵的她感到很沮丧。 ecocn
Mrs Astor, a solitary and dreamy child who had come by money almost magically, treated it like fairy dust to the end of her days.
阿斯特尔夫人则是个充满幻想的独生子女，她几乎象变戏法似的被钱堆到了成年，因而直到她生命的最后一刻，依然视钱财如尘土。 ecocn
Nancy Witcher Astor, or Viscountess Astor, was the second woman elected to the British Parliament's House of Commons and the first to actually serve.
南锡·威彻·阿斯特，也称为阿斯特子爵夫人，是第二位当选为英国下议院议员的女性议员，也是第一位实际到任了的。 yeeyan
Once again Astor stepped in to monitor his friend's treatment but Orwell's specialist was privately pessimistic.
阿斯特再度贴身监视好朋友的治疗情况，但是，奥威尔的主诊医生私底下对此表示相当悲观。 yeeyan
Orwell had worked for David Astor's Observer since1942, first as a book reviewer and later as a correspondent.
自从1942年起，奥威尔一直为大卫·阿斯特的《观察家报》报工作，最初的身份是书评撰稿人，后来成为通讯记者。 yeeyan
They and a few others were and are very much a party to the continuing squabble over Astor's fortune.
和一些其他组织一起，他们在这桩旷日持久的财产纷争上一直都是很重要的参与者。 yeeyan
This grand image was tarnished last summer, when New York's tabloids reported that Mrs Astor's son had been accused of neglecting her while siphoning money from her estate.
去年夏天纽约小报报道说亚士多夫人的儿子被控诉背着她挪用资金，这个光辉的形象便暗淡下来。 ecocn
Though John Jacob did purchase property in New York, it was his son, William Backhouse Astor, who really began to expand the family’s real estate holdings.
虽然当时约翰也在纽约购置房产，但家族房地产事业真正扩张是靠了他的儿子威廉•B•阿斯特 William Backhouse Astor。 yeeyan
Today Astor's company would not register as a blip on the corporate horizon.
现在雅各布的公司在美国商界可就名不见经传了。 ecocn
Viscount Astor, the husband of Nancy Astor, the first woman MP, also introduced a series of motions in the Lords to allow Peeresses to sit in the House, all of which were unsuccessful.
艾斯特子爵,首位女众议员兰茜·艾斯特的丈夫,也多番在上议院提出动议,允许贵族夫人出席上议院,皆不成功. yeeyan
Astor attracted a great deal of attention, much of it for her caustic and witty comments.
阿斯特吸引了大量的注意力，很大一部分都是因为她那些刻薄而诙谐的各种评论。 yeeyan |