2. Venal judges are a disgrace to a country. 贪污腐败的法官是国家的耻辱。
3. Yet surplus countries tend to see themselves as virtuous and deficit countries as venal—the implication being that the burden of adjustment should fall on the borrowers. 然而盈余国大都是自命高尚,并认为赤字国唯利是图──潜台词就是调整局面的重担应该落到借贷者的身上。