In response to the follies of today's commercial and political worlds, the author does not _________ inflamed indignation, but rather _________ the detachment and smooth aphoristic prose of an eighteenth-century wit.
首先rail at不是平和的批评,详见MW解释: to revile or scold in harsh insolent or abusive language
这与raillery是不一样的
次之,在两个空未填之前,已经构成了前后的对比,前面是irrational的,后面是detached的,因此两个空都填正评价或都填负评价。鉴于一开头说的是是对当今世界的白痴们的反映,传统的反应一定会是inflammed,而这个author显然与众不同,采取了detached的态度,这也是ETS写这句话的原因~~