They represent a very different age, which one is tempted to call democratic, even if Russia today is more like a soft dictatorship. Perhaps Borodin was just enjoying a rare night out and is normally an abstemious man, but his thuggish behavior is perhaps not entirely atypical of a new class of Russians that has accumulated a great deal of money and power since the Soviet Union collapsed.
鲍罗廷和科巴拉加德均非贵族。实际情况甚至相去甚远。他们代表了一个截然不同的时代，人们更愿意用民主来形容这个时代，就连今天的俄国也实行软性独裁。或许鲍罗廷只是享受了一个难得的外出夜晚，或许他通常很有节制。但其残暴行为或许在苏联解体后积累了大量金钱和权力的俄罗斯新贵一族中并不罕见。