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Carnivals , circuses , fairs , and similar events .

嘉年华会,马戏团表演,展览会等类似活动。

For a lay person , blue-sky research can appear a waste of money as it does not immediately provide the modern equivalents of bread and circuses .

在外行人看来，理论研究似乎纯属浪费钱财，因为它不能立刻转化成像面包和马戏那样的东西。

While to many this is not an appealing version of bread and circuses , the saudi regime , built upon the twin pillars of absolute monarchy and wahhabi sectarianism , tends to feel history as well as divine right is behind its cause .

尽管对许多人而言，这并非具有吸引力的面包加马戏（指政客为笼络人心而施加的小恩小惠，译者注），但建立在绝对君权和瓦哈比宗派主义这两大支柱之上的沙特政权，往往感到历史和天赋神权才是决定性因素。

Circuses featuring gladiators and exotic animals date back to roman times . In the middle ages circus skills were taken around europe by travelling groups of gypsies .

以战士和珍奇异兽为主的马戏团可追溯至罗马时代，中世纪时，马戏团的技巧由四处游走的吉普赛人传遍欧洲。

He 'll be there along with his son james and right-hand woman rebekah brooks and it is set to become one of the biggest media and political circuses britain has seen for decades .

他将沿着他的儿子詹姆斯和右手的女人吕贝卡布鲁克斯-将成为英国已为几十年来难得一见的的最大的媒体和政治马戏团之一。