纪录片《凡尔赛宫》 72凡尔赛宫又一次彻底的灾难

The Assembly of Notablesincluded

显贵会议包含了

all the most powerful figures in Louis' realm.

路易统治下的所有权贵人物

They had the authority to see that Calonne's reforms

他们有权看着加隆的改革议案

became the law of the land.

变成这个国家的法律

Calonne's reforms will be introduced to them,

加隆的改革方案将会介绍给他们

they will give it their endorsements¹,

然后他们得签署同意书

thus showing a degree of almost national support,

这表明了全国性的支持

and the king will go on happily.

然后国王很开心地继续议程

Of course, it doesn't happen like that.

这种情况当然不会发生

The Assembly of Notables turns into an absolute bear garden,

显贵会议乱成一团

an absolute dogfight.

变成了狗咬狗

What Calonne was doing

加隆所做的

was asking an assembly of privileged people

是要求这些特权阶层的集会

to vote away their own privileges.

投票废除他们自身的特权

In other words, asking turkeys to vote early for Christmas.

或者说 要火鸡投票将圣诞节提前

And so, inevitably², they rejected it.

他们毫无疑问拒绝了议案

The king realises that Calonne has failed to persuade

国王意识到加隆没能说服

the political elite³ to go down his route.

这些政治精英们跟随他的改革道路

He gets sacked. The ideas which he proposes are withdrawn⁴.

他被解雇了 他的提议也被撤消了

So it's aprettyunmitigated disaster.

这就是场彻头彻尾的灾难

1 endorsements   

n.背书( endorsement的名词复数 )；（驾驶执照上的）违章记录；（公开的）赞同；（通常为名人在广告中对某一产品的）宣传

参考例句：

• He must make much money on those tennis shoe endorsements he does. 他替那些网球鞋珍重广告，就赚了不少钱。 来自互联网
• But celebrity endorsements remain an important promotional tool for marketers. 尽管如此，邀明星助阵仍是营销人员重要的推广手段之一。 来自互联网

2 inevitably   

adv.不可避免地；必然发生地

参考例句：

• In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去，毫无疑问是会散伙的。
• Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。

3 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。

4 withdrawn   

vt.收回；使退出；vi.撤退，退出

参考例句：

• Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
• All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。