But the Vatican as portrayed in Noyes' cable is already a model of balkanization and inefficiency.

但是，梵蒂冈描绘诺耶斯的有线电视已经是巴尔干的低效率模式。

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As economic behavior being more and more complicated, some economic phenomena cannot reflect the objective reality well till they are portrayed with the dynamic non-linear model.

随着经济行为越来越复杂，只有用动态的非线性模型刻画某些经济现象，才能较好地反映客观现实。

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In recent years, much attention has been paid to how women are portrayed in the media, whether it's an overly airbrushed magazine model with an impossibly slim waist, or a TV starlet with protruding collar bones.

BBC: Are thin women the enemy?