We don't expect candidates to be paragons of virtue.

我们不指望候选人都是道德完人。

Not all emerging markets, though, were such paragons.

然而，并不是所有的新兴市场都是这样的典范。

Dictionaries are supposed to be paragons of accuracy.

麦当劳的发言人沃尔特·莱克说：“词典应该是准确的典范。”

Beside me, their kids look paragons of respectability.

除了我，他们的孩子看起来都很体面。

All cruel people describe them as paragons of frankness.

所有的残忍的人都把自己形容为坦率的象征。

Unfortunately we can't expect all policemen to be paragons of virtue.

不幸的是，我们不能期望所有的警察都十全十美。

Mary was always holding up her children as paragons of good behaviour.

玛丽老是标榜自己的孩子是品行端正的典范。

But even among the world's paragons of corporate virtue, reality and rhetoric diverge.

但甚至是世界上集体美德的典范国家里，言行也有所不一。

A higher proportion than ever of these paragons want to make their homes in the United States.

这些人中想在美国定居的比例为历年之最。

The stereotype of Asian Americans as narrow mathematical paragons is unfair, however, and inaccurate.

然而， 认为亚裔学生只能学好数学的老观点是不公正也不正确的。

Perhaps this is because investors are not the perfectly informed paragons found in efficient-market theory.

也许这是因为投资者没有更好的深刻领会有效市场理论。

KM: Have you found any of these paragons of virtue, or is this more theoretical and nobody's doing it yet?

你找到了一些有关本质的比较完美东西 或是这个太理论了还没人做过?。

The dabbawalas, who all receive the same pay, are also seen as paragons of “bottom up” social entrepreneurship.

“达巴瓦拉”由于始终拿相同的报酬，也被认为是 “从底层不断向上攀爬”的社会企业家典范。

Even as Western financial firms have fallen into disrepute, Banks in emerging markets are treated as paragons of probity.

甚至，拒绝西方金融机构的同时，新兴市场的金融机构被奉为诚实的典范。

Yet, to list these paragons from today's perspective is already to presage the demise of the belief in their inevitable victory.

然而，今天我们列举这些榜样，则已经预示着在它们无可争辩的胜利中信念的死亡。

That these paragons of high tech have had trouble telling time led to dripping sarcasm Sunday, even from owners who didn't suffer any problems.

这些完美个高科技有着报时的问题，星期日引起不断讽刺，甚至来自其所有者，他是不能忍受任何问题的。

"Every superhero needs his theme music, " he says on "POWER", and though he's far from the virtuous paragons of comic book lore, he's no less complex.

Every superhero needs his theme music"（“每一个超级英雄都需要他的主题曲），他在“POWER”上说，虽然他远远不是漫画传说中美德的楷模，他却并非不那么复杂。

Given that it also counts Angola, Malaysia, Thailand and uganda-hardly paragons of civil liberty-among its current members, disappointments may be more likely.

考虑到安哥拉，马来西亚，泰国和乌干达这些几乎没有公民自由的国家也是其成员，就更加令人失望了。

Looking back on the tea-things paragons of of the past dynasties, we'll find that all of them were connected closely with their tea cultures at different times.

纵观我国历代茶具的典范，无一不是和当时的茶文化紧密联系的。

The revisionist interpretation, which I support, does not enshrine dinosaurs as paragons of intellect, but it does maintain that they were not small brained after all.

译文：我所支持的修正主义者的解释，就是不把恐龙视为智力的模范，但是也主张他们毕竟不是小脑。