超高的高跟鞋是非常不实用的，鉴于他们对脚部的伤害，可谓为现代的裹脚布。

Super high heels are very impractical, and with the damage they do, wearing them might even be described as modern-day foot binding!

保守派专栏作家乔治·威尔更是写到，当年英国首相迪斯雷利对其前任格拉德斯通的评价用在奥巴马身上再合适不过了，“陶醉于自己的‘裹脚布’中不能自拔。”

George Will, a conservative columnist, notes that Disraeli's gibe about Gladstone might well apply to Mr Obama-he is "inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity".