We were in the invidious position of having to choose whether to break the law or risk lives.
我们处于左右为难的窘境，不知是要违法还是要拿生命冒险。
It would be invidious to single out any one person to thank.
单独感谢任何一个人都易引起反感。
1.引起反感的,令人厌恶的
2.招嫉妒的,招猜忌的
1.likely to cause problems, for example by offending people or making them feel you have not treated them fairly
1.Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery.
部分的自由对我来说就是最令人憎恶的奴役方式。
2.Many may think it is invidious for me to comment on my own compensation, but I wanted to add to the debate on CEO compensation.
许多人或许认为，如果我对自己的薪酬发表看法，这将会引火烧身，但我想谈一谈有关CEO薪酬的话题。
3.Such a difficult choice placed her in an invidious and unenviable position.
如此艰难的选择使她处于一种引起反感的和尴尬的境地。
4.But these, the opposition charges, were no more than "bubble wrap" used to conceal more invidious changes.
但是，反对党则控诉这些无疑就是气泡膜外包装材料，目的是用来隐藏更多的不公平。
5.The Quartet (sans trois most of the time ) anyway puts the United Nations in the invidious position of acting as bag-carrier for the US .
不管怎样，四重奏（大多数时候是没有三方）让联合国惹人反感地处在充当美国附庸的地位。
6.His vision was of a country racked with fear and bent on vengeance, one that imposed invidious choices on the world and on itself.
他心目中的美国，饱受恐惧折磨，一心复仇，将不得人心的选择强加于世界，也强加于自身。
7.I view the legal exclusion of gay people from marriage as morally wrong; a form of invidious discrimination.
我认为在法律上禁止同性恋人群结婚是一个道德上的错误；一个令人反感的歧视。
8.The excesses of Castro's apparatchiks during the cold war pale in comparison to the invidious exploits of the Boligarchs.
与这些精英们招人怨恨的业绩相比，卡斯特罗在冷战期间过分的改造不禁黯然失色。
9.But often brought into proximity initially as a result of very invidious social interactions So how can we overcome this?
不过这种临近往往在最初是由于可憎的社会作用所造成的。所以我们应当如何来克服这一点呢？
10.The issue, say some, is not multiculturalism but Islam. Such generalisations are invidious.
这个问题，有些人说不是多文化间的隔膜，这样高度的概括是不恰当，这只是与伊斯兰文化隔膜。