The craze for drink had seized him again, and he ordered me to pull up outside a gin palace.

这时，他的酒瘾又发作了，他叫我在一家大酒店外面停下来。

Working class gin palaces, dripping with glass and glitz, made gin glamorous, harking back to the time when spirits were only for the rich, and making it slightly more socially respectable.

工人阶级的杜松子酒宫殿， 滴落着玻璃和浮华，使杜松子酒充满魅力，让人回想起烈酒只为富人所有的时代，并使其在社会上稍微受到尊重。