We will all laugh at gilded butterflies怎么读

1、To work abroad is to be gilded.
句意：在国外工作就是（给自己）镀金.
to be gilded：（某人/物）被镀金,这样用是因为,从含义上讲,应该是【在国外工作的人被镀金】,因此,这是【不定式一般式的被动结构】.
2、Working abroad is to be gilded不能等于To work abroad is to be gilded.原因是：
不定式、v-ing形式作主语时,对应的表语如果还要使用不定式、v-ing形式,有个原则是【主表一致】.例如：
Seeing is believing.=To see is to believe.
眼见为实.
3、造句：
In my opinion,working abroad is being gilded.
or
In my opinion,to work abroad is to be gilded.
我认为,到国外工作就是给自己镀金.

城市的高处(应该是海拔之类的),就在一个高高的圆柱上,矗立着快乐王子的雕塑.
他(这里指雕塑)的全身都镀上了薄的叶片,眼睛是闪亮的金镶成.
在他的剑上有两颗兰宝石,一颗红色的大珍珠(猜的,rudy应该跟宝石是类似的意思).

黄金般的年轻时代已经逝去

先来一个短版本：
The late 19th century witnessed the birth of modern America.It saw the closing of the Western frontier.Between 1865 and the 1890s,Americans settled 430 million acres in the Far West--more land than during the preceding 250 years of American history.But to open lands west of the Mississippi River to white settlers,the Plains Indians were pushed in a series of Indian wars onto restricted reservations.
This period also witnessed the creation of a modern industrial economy.A national transportation and communication network was created,the corporation became the dominant form of business organization,and a managerial revolution transformed business operations.By the beginning of the twentieth century,per capita income and industrial production in the United States exceeded that of any other country except Britain.Long hours and hazardous working conditions,led many workers to attempt to form labor unions despite strong opposition from industrialists and the courts.
An era of intense political partisanship,the Gilded Age was also an era of reform.The Civil Service Act sought to curb government corruption by requiring applicants for certain governmental jobs to take a competitive examination.The Interstate Commerce Act sought to end discrimination by railroads against small shippers and the Sherman Antitrust Act outlawed business monopolies.
These years also saw the rise of the Populist crusade.Burdened by heavy debts and falling farm prices,many farmers joined the Populist party,which called for an increase in the amount of money in circulation,government assistance to help farmers repay loans,tariff reductions,and a graduated income tax.
再来一个长版本：
In American history,the Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century.The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their book The Gilded Age:A Tale of Today.The name refers to the process of gilding an object with a superficial layer of gold and is meant to make fun of ostentatious display while playing on the term "golden age."
The Gilded Age is most famous for the creation of a modern industrial economy.During the 1870s and 1880s,the U.S.economy grew at the fastest rate in its history,with real wages,wealth,GDP,and capital formation all increasing rapidly.[1] For example,between 1865 and 1898,the output of wheat increased by 256%,corn by 222%,coal by 800% and miles of railway track by 567%.[2] Thick national networks for transportation and communication were created.The corporation became the dominant form of business organization,and a managerial revolution transformed business operations.By the beginning of the 20th century,per capita income and industrial production in the United States led the world,with per capita incomes double that of Germany or France,and 50% higher than Britain.[3] The businessmen of the Second Industrial Revolution created industrial towns and cities in the Northeast with new factories,and hired an ethnically diverse industrial working class,many of them new immigrants from Europe.The super-rich industrialists and financiers such as John D.Rockefeller,Andrew W.Mellon,Andrew Carnegie,Henry Flagler,Henry H.Rogers,J.P.Morgan,Cornelius Vanderbilt of the Vanderbilt family,and the prominent Astor family were attacked as "robber barons" by critics,who believed they cheated to get their money and lorded it over the common people.[4] There was a small,growing labor union movement led especially by Samuel Gompers,head of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) after 1886.
Gilded Age politics,called the Third Party System,featured very close contests between the Republicans and Democrats,and,occasionally,third parties.Nearly all the eligible men were political partisans and voter turnout often exceeded 90% in some states.[5]
The wealth of the period is highlighted by the American upper class' opulence,but also by the rise of American philanthropy (referred to by Andrew Carnegie as the "Gospel of Wealth") that used private money to endow thousands of colleges,hospitals,museums,academies,schools,opera houses,public libraries,symphony orchestras,and charities.[6] John D.Rockefeller,for example,donated over $500 million to various charities,slightly over half his entire net worth.
The Beaux-Arts architectural idiom of the era clothed public buildings in Neo-Renaissance architecture.
The end of the Gilded Age coincided with the Panic of 1893,a deep depression,which lasted until 1897 and marked a major political realignment in the election of 1896.This productive but divisive era was followed by the Progressive Era.

（一）不定式和动名词（短语）做主语,在汉语翻译中很难区别它们的不同,但其实这种不同还是存在的,就以你的句子为例：
1、动名词短语 （动作人与时间上没有特指 == 泛指）
Working abroad is to be gilded == （无论是谁,什么时候）在国外工作（都是）是去镀金.
2、不定式 （往往含有时间概念、或与动作人相关）
To work abroad is to be gilded (for me) .== (对我来说）去国外工作就是去镀金.
（1）在国外 == 无论何人、何时
（2）去国外 == 动作性较强,而且,这个动作可能发生在将来.
可以加上动作人
你的句子是泛指,最好不换.
（二）to be gilded 不定式做表语
to be to do == 有表示计划内将发生的事（含有结果或目的意味）,试区别：
I am a doctor.我是一名医生.
I am to be a doctor.我将成为医生.
The rises in the east.太阳从对方升起
The sun is to rise in the east.太阳势必从东方升起.
（三）造句
Reading more is to be encouraged.多读书,是应该得到鼓励（倡导） 的.

被镀金的青年时期的年龄结束.Today’s在之下三十是第1个世代比他们的父母、人的研究入生活方式和远景可能期待一个更低的生存标准出生的一个世纪,因为1970比早先世代表示,they’re可能面对终身更长的工作时间、更低的工作保障和更高的税金.当他们傍晚离开工作他们将是可能返回到一层小舱内甲板比到他们自己的房子.当,最终,他们退休,如果低于那些按实际价值计算在退休金他们直接时克制老人的涌起的数量,单独居住的许多,有对物产和被提高的房价的也增长的需要.