In contrast , europe 's past vices now seemed like virtues : rigidity recast as solidity , risk-aversion as prudence .
相比之下,欧洲过去的恶习现在却成了美德:其以往的固执呆板被看作坚实稳重,不敢冒险被看作谨小慎微。
More taxed vices would certainly lead to significant new revenue streams at every level .
对更多的恶习收税必然会在各个层次上带来全新的国税流。
This is not to say that the occupy protesters are guilty of ethnic prejudice : they belong to a class and a generation that is largely free from such vices .
这并不是说占领华尔街抗议者犯有种族偏见这一罪过:他们所处的阶级和世代基本没有沾染到种族偏见的恶习。
Many pigs become crazy with boredom and develop vices like mouthing , and nervous ticks ; others are driven to fighting and cannibalism because of their frustration .
What is more , in japan 's parliament smokers , and the elderly tobacco farmers who support their vices , are treated with the care and respect normally reserved for royalty .
此外,日本国会的抽烟族以及支持抽烟恶习的年老的烟草种植者却受到了王室成员般的照顾与尊重。
However , such logic is of little use in germany and japan , two big and rich countries that did not succumb to the boom 's vices , but are nevertheless facing nasty recessions .
然而,这种逻辑不适用于德国和日本,这两个大国兼富国并未屈服于繁荣所带来的恶习,却仍面临危险的衰退。
I think that our country - despite its past and present atrocities and vices , and despite its continuing eagerness to elect fools and knaves to high office - is a good example of the best kind of society so far invented .
But the bonanza also risks feeding some brazilian vices : a spendthrift and corrupt political system ; an over-mighty state and over-protected domestic market ; and neglect of the virtues of saving , investment and training .
As the history of alcohol prohibition underscores , there are also many non-economic reasons to favor legalization of vices : prohibition rarely achieves its desired goals and instead increases violence ( when was the last time a tobacco kingpin was killed in a deal gone wrong ? )