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1. That's a mean-spirited thing for a mother to say.
作为一位母亲,说那样的话太刻薄了。

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2. Lengthy periods of economic stagnation or decline have almost always left society more mean-spirited and less inclusive, and have usually stopped or reversed the advance of rights and freedoms.
长期的经济停滞或衰退几乎总是使社会变得更加刻薄、更缺乏包容性,通常还会阻止或逆转权利和自由的进步。

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3. It is mean-spirited and dangerous.
这种行为是卑鄙的、危险的。

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4. Sometimes he can be very mean-spirited.
有时候他很坏心眼。

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5. Good looks can hide a selfish or mean-spirited personality.
外表的好看可能隐藏着其自私和心胸狭窄的个性。

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6. If you allow the mean-spirited opinions of others to make you waver in your purpose, you incur a double shame.
如果你让别人的那些不怀好意的意见动摇你的目标,你就招致双倍的耻辱。

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7. But there is a fast-approaching limit to our ability to borrow, steal, and print. Acknowledging this reality is not mean-spirited or cruel.
但是我们正在快速逼近借钱,偷钱和印钱的能力上限,承认这个现实并不是什么吝啬和不人道。

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8. The lesson, in a cold and mean-spirited age, is to remind us of a quiet human quality that is seldom adequately praised or celebrated: Grace.
在一个冷漠、性情乖僻的时代,这一启示是要提醒我们注意一种不引人注目、很少受到人们足够的称赞或颂扬的人类品质:宽厚。

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9. I wasn't overly enamored with the idea of sharing it as he was grubby, even down the insides of his ears, but the repeated refusals felt mean-spirited.
我不想和这个肮脏的小男孩分享可乐,甚至他耳朵里也是脏污不堪。但是接二连三的拒绝显得有点可鄙。

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10. "Mentioning parents can easily become mean-spirited attacks that interfere with the couple's ability to address the underlying issues, " she told HuffPost.
她对《赫芬顿邮报》说:“提及父母就很有可能变成刻薄的攻击,影响双方解决眼前问题的能力。”

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11. Some of the E-mail messages, purloined last November, were mean-spirited, others were dismissive of contrarian views, and others revealed a timid reluctance to share data.
去年11月遭到偷窃的一些邮件信息卑鄙无耻,其他邮件信息拒绝发表相反的看法还有其他信息揭露出胆小怕事不愿分享数据。

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12. The criticism is mean-spirited. If you use insulting or degrading language, or put down the person in any way, they will focus on that, and not on the rest of the criticism.
如果你使用了侮辱性的语言,或是用任何一种方式羞辱了被批评者,他们关心的就会是这个,而不会是批评的其他部分。

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13. The party's opposition to gay marriage not only makes them look mean-spirited. It is also destroying any chance Republicans have of regaining the support of younger Americans.
共和党对于同性恋婚姻的反对态度不仅让他们看上去很自私,而且在毁掉他们争取年轻美国人支持的机会。

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14. The big question is what does the ruling mean for the spirited battle between Internet companies and content providers?
一个重要的问题是这次裁决对于互联网公司和内容提供商之间风生水起的战役意味着什么?

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15. There was nothing mean spirited to this.
这样做没有什么卑鄙的。

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16. I do not like these parsimonious mean spirited person.
我不喜欢那些又吝啬又小气的人。

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17. I do not like these parsimonious mean spirited person.
我不喜欢那些又吝啬又小气的人。

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