It wouldn 't look great on your mantelpiece .

放在你的壁炉台上，它可能看起来不大。

At home on the sitting room mantelpiece , the situation is not much better .

回到家里，在起居室的壁炉台上，情况也好不到哪里去。

Credibility is not a trophy to polish on the mantelpiece , but for use at times such as these when the economy is sickly yet inflation is too high .

但信誉并不是一个摆在壁炉台上用来擦拭的奖品，而是一个应在像今天这样经济疲弱而通胀过高的时期使用的工具。

When I mentioned the scarcity of cards to a friend , he said his own 2011 crop was so pitiful that he had decided to dig out last year 's and put them up on the mantelpiece , where they are looking rather good .

当我向一位朋友提到贺卡的稀少时，他说他自己2011年的收获也十分可怜，以至于他决定把去年的贺卡翻出来，摆在壁炉台上，看上去效果十分不错。