But is there any humiliation more irritating to a fiftysomething——more symbolic of the widening gulf between his 20th-century sensibility and the faddish, superficial epoch in which we now live——than a visit to a computer shop?

但是对于一个五十几岁的人来说，还有什么羞辱比光顾一家电脑商店更令人无地自容呢？这似乎更能代表20 世纪的理性和如今社会的时尚和浮华之间有越来越大的鸿沟。