本章主要介紹“王安石變法”從王安石的古怪的思維及妄想性性格特征入手，觀察他平時不注重外表禮節(jié)的細節(jié)，為人處事差，濫用職權，再到他推行的變法導致百姓苦不堪言，與蘇家父子形成鮮明對比。

1．Sentence

This was the last of China’s experimental in state capitalism,though by no means the first

? By no means 決不;毫不;一點也不;并沒有[亦作 not by any means 或 not by any manner of means]

同近義詞

? 決不

in no way , in no case , in no circumstances , in no wise , in no shape

例句:This scene is by no means easy to shoot.

這個鏡頭可不容易攝。

譯：這是中國最后一次國家資本主義的實驗，絕不是第一次

2,Su Shun characterized him in a rhetorical flourish as “dressed in a barbarian’s robe and eating the food of pigs and dogs “

dressed in a barbarian’s robe and eating the food of pigs and dogs “

衣臣虜之衣食犬憊之食

譯：蘇洵在《辯奸論》那篇文章就描寫王安石“衣臣虜之衣食犬憊之食”

3.Here was the picture of the refugees,half clad and starving ,traveling on the highway in a blinding storm

譯：一幅圖上畫的是難民一半赤裸，忍受著饑餓，在暴風雨中使人無法睜眼的情況下，在路上艱難前行。