as recently as six years ago, while investors were still in thrall to a dotcom bubble that had yet to burst, steel was derided as one of the last bastions of the 「old」 economy.

六年前，投资商开始热衷于投资网络，那时，钢铁业被人们嘲笑是「老式」经济的最后行业之一。现在，尽管经历过网络经济泡沫破灭时代，但人们的观念没变。

it「s the reason why cctv」s schedules are dominated by recycled kung fu classics and qing dynasty soap operas and why moviemakers remain in thrall to the costume drama.

这是为什么央视尽播翻炒的经典功夫片和清代电视剧，而电影则总是古装片。

looking emaciated, he farmed out large parts of his speech, which is usually a big marketing and media event, to other presenters. but he still held the crowd in thrall as ever.

身为媒体宠儿的乔布斯,其发布演讲常是倍受媒体关注的营销盛宴;但虚弱憔悴的他此次却将演讲重任交由他人捉刀,不过其个人魅力依旧征服众人,牢牢锁住视线焦点.

since the yuan did not move independently of the dollar, it was hard to know if china「s neighbours were in thrall to its currency or america」s.

因为之前人民币并没有脱离美元独立浮动，很难搞清中国的邻国是否受人民币或是美元的影响。

mr sarkozy sees a chance to show he is a man of action, and he will find it easier to force through domestic reform if he can show he is not in thrall to all that anglo-saxon free-market ideology.

萨科齐先生想借此机会来显示下他是个实干家，而且如果能显示出他不屈服于盎格鲁-撒 克逊人的自由市场意识形态，他国内的改革必将会推进的更容易些。

shemsen doubted that even the two of them together could hold so many beasts in thrall .

舍姆森怀疑就算他们两位联手也不一定能阻止如此之多的受奴役的怪物。

she was completely in thrall to dickens.

她完全是被狄更斯给迷住了。

more than a millennium later, the city was in thrall to 「quarrelsome, tough, crazy」 pope sixtus v, as a later poet called him.

一千多年后，这个城市落到了教皇西斯科特五世的手中，后来的诗人称他「好斗、坚韧、狂热」。

vespucci's contemporaries were not in thrall to hard facts based on firm evidence.

瓦斯普契的同时代人并不相信有着确凿证据的明确事实。

but they are more in thrall to local governments—whose priorities are to maintain growth and employment in their jurisdiction—than to head office in beijing.

但是他们比起北京的环保总局，更依赖的是当地政府，而当地政府的首要目标实却是在他们的管辖范围内维持经济增长和就业。

the main opposition telugu desam party lost power in 2004 partly because it was seen as in thrall to the it industry and foreign investors.

由于束缚信息产业发展并抑制外资的介入，印度国内最大的反对党泰卢固之乡党于2004年下野。

it is necessary to go back to the 19th century, when brazil’s then monarchy was briefly in thrall to scottish economists, to find something like classical liberalism there.

有必要追溯至十九世纪，当时巴西王室曾短暂受到苏格兰经济学者的影响，在巴西发现类似古典自由主义的影子。

we adore 「the front page」 and 「scoop, 」 which present us as lazy, unprincipled, and hopelessly in thrall to bogus information.

我喜欢封面和独家新闻，但是这些新闻又证明了我们只是一群无纪律、慵懒和没希望的只专注于一些假信息的人。

but he still held the crowd in thrall as ever.

但是这次他仍然像往常一样主持发布。

are we really that in thrall to the oil markets?

难道我们真的如此受缚于石油市场？

advertisers are not so in thrall to the cult of youth that they are prepared to overlook such a shift.

广告商不再那么依赖生命力旺盛的年轻人，他们準备对此轮转变保持冷静。

not his ascendency alone, however, held me in thrall at present.

目前束缚着我们，并不只是他的支配地位。

yet another is an iraq in thrall to a nuclear-arming iran that is increasingly hostile to western friends and interests in the middle east.

然而，最差的后果，是沦为把持核武的伊朗的附庸，而伊朗现在对西方在中东的朋友和利益集团敌意渐浓。

the subject generates great cynicism, with critics suggesting investors are in thrall to political correctness and guilty of creating a 「box-ticking」 culture that stifles entrepreneurship.

它催生了诸如批评投资者被政治正确所左右，并且反对建立窒息企业发展的「暗箱文化」的反主流趋势。

since the yuan did not move independently of the dollar, it was hard to know if china’s neighbours were in thrall to its currency or america’s.

由于人民币不是独立于美元而变动，很难知道中国周边国家受制于中国的货币政策还是美国的。