Unseemly self-exposures, unpalatable betrayals, unavoidable mendacity, a soupçon of meretriciousness: memoir, for much of its modern history, has been the black sheep of the literary family.

失态的自我揭露，难以置信的背叛，不可避免的谎言，加上少许虚华：回忆录，在其短短的历史中，向来是文学家族里的害群之马。

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Woe betide the British person who dares to suggest that his country's excellent performance at the Games wasn't a sign of national regeneration but of national frivolity and meretriciousness, to which its population and its leaders now turn as naturally as some flowers turn to the sun.

WSJ: India's Olympic Achievement: Indifference