"They're a small group and their purpose is to show their own strength against the general society which they feel is a mockery of Jewish identity or a mockery of what a Jewish society should be.

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The mockery you might say mockery of Socrates remains one of the sincerest forms of flattery; they took him very seriously.

这些嘲弄，可以这么说,对苏格拉底的嘲弄,仍是最真诚的奉承型式之一；,他们很把他当一回事。

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He had this thing called the drunken assembly, which was in a way kind of a mockery of parliamentary representations where his cronies would come and just get wasted and would make all sorts of flamboyant proclamations that seemed to represent what a real parliament would do.

他有个被戏称为"酒鬼议会"的东西,这个"酒鬼议会"是对议会代表们的嘲弄,他们也会开会,但不过是浪费时间,还发表一些冠冕堂皇的声明,就好像一个真正的议会似的

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