People Eighteenth Century Laboring Beer Regard Note Rightly Stage

意群训练： With regard t o this last question ，we might not e in passin g that Thompson, while rightly restorin g laboring peopl e to the stage o f eighteenth-century English history ，has probably exaggerate d the oppositio n of these people to the inroads of capitalist consumeris m in general ; for example , laboring people in eighteenth-century Englan d readily shifted fro m home-brewed beer to standardized bee r produced by huge ，heavily capitalize d urban breweries .

标志： With regard to this last question, we might note /in passing/ that Thompson , /while rightly restoring laboring people to the stage of eighteenth-century English history /, but has probably exaggerated the opposition (of these people) (to the inroads of capitalist consumerism in general); for example, laboring people in eighteenth-century England readily shift ed from home-brewed beer to standardized beer produced by huge, heavily capitalized urban breweries.

译文： 关于这个最后的问题，我们 可以 /顺便/指出 ，T 尽管正确地使劳动人民重返十八世纪英国的历史舞台， 但是他 有可能夸大了 （这些人）（对于资本主义消费观的侵入所持的普遍的）敌视态度 ；比如说，19世纪的英国劳动人民很容易就从 家酿的啤酒转而 饮用由大型的、高度资本主义化的城市酿酒厂生产的标准啤酒。

解释： 本句的难点就在句子开始的we might note /in passing/ that Thompson ...一句中。不认识in passing这个词组，现场就无法读懂这句话的结构和含义；好在这里这个词组没有什么特别重要的意思，即使跳过也不耽误大事。

in passing的意思是：顺便地、随便地或偶然地，其在英文中的同义词就是briefly、incidentally。句子中的note in passing that...就是“顺便提一下”、“简单说一句”的意思。