They were a holy lot , with the emphasis on hellfire and damnation .
他们是一群虔诚的人,强调地狱邪火和诅咒。
Perhaps it was more of a damnation than a redemption , after all .
说到底,这不是一种救赎,而是一个诅咒。
Meeting " the voice and embodiment of the jazz age , its product and its beneficiary , a popular novelist , a movie scenarist , a dweller in the gilded palaces " , the reporter found instead , to his distinct hilarity , that fitzgerald was " forecasting doom , death and damnation to his generation " .