By the end of his life, Presley's vocals often descended close to self-parody.
在人生的最后阶段，猫王普雷斯利的歌曲大不如前，通常几近于自我嘲弄。
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Today, that model has warped into self-parody: many of the Banks' assets are unsellable even as they have to return to the market each day to ask for lenders to vote on their survival.
He was a celebrity, sometimes a self-parody, a hearty friend, an implacable foe, a man of large faith and large flaws, a melancholy character who persevered, drank deeply and sang loudly.