Embedded in this short history is all the elusiveness of human identity;

上述简短的历史回顾说明，准确识别人类身份并不容易；

Mr Osborne's elusiveness would matter less, were the gap between his public profile and his influence smaller.

如果奥斯本先生的公共形象和他的影响力没有如此显著的差异的话，他的不为人知也就不那么重要了。

Embedded in this short history is all the elusiveness of human identity; each new advance reveals the flaws in earlier systems.

上述简短的历史回顾说明，准确识别人类身份并不容易；每一个新的进展都能揭示出旧系统中的缺点。

Hence the strange facelessness, transparency, and elusiveness of power, hence the blandness of its language, the anonymity of its decisions.

于是，这权力令人奇怪地面目模糊，没有形体，令人无法捉摸，它的语言平淡无味，它的决定不知由谁作出。

Such elusiveness is an anomaly in the gear-fanatical global soccer culture that feeds the merchandising frenzy surrounding the Cup every four years.

这样的躲躲藏藏在热衷运动装备的世界足球文化中是个异数，而正是这种文化推动着围绕着四年一度世界杯而展开的销售热潮。