A certain crassness and greed have taken over.

某种粗俗与贪婪在占据上风。

Each generation of critics seems to select one particular usage to stand as the emblem of what they view as linguistic crassness.

每一代的批评家好象都挑了一个特别的用法作为他们认为的语言上的愚蠢行为的象征。