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The meeting presented a new low for the newspaper, its perpetually disappointed proprietor and its lickspittle columnist: as if it weren’t bad enough that women held high office and didn’t have the grace to think the same about things, they were also each in possession of not one but two legs.
长难句解析：
主干识别：
The meeting presented a new low
切分成分：
1.for the newspaper，its perpetually disappointed proprietor and its lickspittle columnist状语
冒号接一个从句表示解释：
2.1 as if it weren’t bad enough that women held high office and didn’t have the grace to think the same about things,
2.2 they were also each in possession of not one but two legs.
参考译文：这次会面让这家报纸，这家报纸的那些从来都是让人失望的经营者以及这家报纸趋炎赴势的专栏作者们再次low到极点：就好像说这两个女人身居高位，没有风度去达成一致意见还不够糟，(还要自己补一刀)：她们每个人还都长了两条腿，不止一条!
参考译文2：这次会面让这家报纸，这家报纸的那些从来都是让人失望的经营者以及这家报纸的趋炎赴势的专栏作者们再次low到极点：评论说：这两个女人身居高位，没有风度去达成一致意见，就已经够糟糕了，(自己还要补一刀)：她们每个人还都长了两条腿，不止一条!
词汇突破：
1.Perpetual 经常，永恒
2.Proprietor 经营者;所有者
3.Lickspittle 趋炎赴势的
4.Grace 风度
5.In possession of 拥有
6.low (就是大家很熟悉的low啊)格调低