Choked with ambition of the meaner sort

被那种狭窄的野心憋得透不过气来

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side(George Eliot.

捐助的意向有它更为自私的一面(乔治·艾略)。

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own

千万不要和比你自己的动机更恶毒的对手较量

Some books also may be read by deputy,and extracts made of them bothers;but that would be only in the less important arguments,and the meaner sort of books,else distilled books are like common distilled waters,flashy things.

书亦可请人代读,取其所作摘要,但只限题材较次或价值不高者,否则书经提炼犹如水经蒸馏、淡而无味矣。

The row houses had been darkened by the rain and looked meaner and grimmer than ever

一排排房屋被雨水浇湿,看上去比以前更加破旧阴暗了

Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy tings

有些书还可以由人代读,即读旁人作的节录,但这只适用于次要的论点和较平庸的书;否则压缩本像通俗的蒸馏饮料一样,华而不实。

As a Chinese saying goes, the richer a man is, the meaner he is. Rich countries are reluctant to provide more money to the Third World, let alone transfer their technology to it.

中国有句话,愈富的人愈悭吝。要富国多拿点钱出来,它不肯,技术转让更不愿意。

||1:Globalisation made the world a better place for almost everyone.||2:But too little was done to mitigate its costs.||3:The integrated world’s neglected problems have now grown in the eyes of the public to the point where the benefits of the global order are easily forgotten.||4:Yet the solution on offer is not really a fix at all.||5:Slowbalisation will be meaner and less stable than its predecessor.||6:In the end it will only feed the discontent.

||1:全球化让世界变得更美好。||2:但不利于降低成本。||3:在公众的眼中，一体化世界中被忽视的问题现在已经增长到很容易忘记全球秩序的好处的地步。||4:然而，提供的解决方案并不是真正的解决方案。||5:全球化放缓将比上一阶段更为艰难，也不那么稳定。||6:最终只会助长不满情绪。

||1:It is not too late to defuse the situation.||2:The commercial damage has been limited so far.||3:Japan is aware that, notwithstanding America’s current tactics, export controls look bad; it is thus susceptible to pressure from other trading partners.||4:The two countries will discuss their disagreement at the World Trade Organisation later this month.||5:This is shaping up to be a test of whether the global trading system can, despite great strains, still soothe tensions—or whether it is being supplanted by a new, meaner order, in which supply chains are weaponised and commerce is purely an extension of politics.

||1:现在缓和局势还为时不晚。||2:到目前为止，商业损失有限。||3:日本意识到，尽管美国采取了当前的策略，但出口控制看上去很糟糕；因此，中国很容易受到其他贸易伙伴的压力。||4:两国将于本月晚些时候在世界贸易组织讨论他们的分歧。||5:这将是对全球贸易体系的一次考验，看它能否在巨大的压力下仍能缓解紧张局势，或者是否正被一种新的、更为苛刻的秩序所取代，在这种秩序下，供应链被武器化，商业纯粹是政治的延伸。

||1:Some people are compared to dogs in bad ways.||2:People who are unkind or uncaring can be described as meaner than a junkyard dog.||3:Mean dogs are often used to guard this property.||4:They bark or attack people who try to enter the property.||5:However, sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad.||6:We say his bark is worse than his bite.

||1:有些人被以一些不好的方式来与狗比较。||2:不友好或冷漠的人们可以用meaner than a junkyard dog来形容。||3:凶狠的狗通常用来看护这类场所。||4:有人试图进入这类场所时，它们便狂吠或攻击。||5:然而，有些人看上去凶狠极具威胁，实际没那么严重。||6:我们就说his bark is worse than his bite.

||Some people are compared to dogs in bad ways. People who are unkind or uncaring can be described as meaner than a junkyard dog.|| Junkyard dogs live in places where people throw away things they do not want. Mean dogs are often used to guard this property. They bark or attack people who try to enter the property. However, sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad. We say his bark is worse than his bite.

||有些人被以一些不好的方式来与狗比较。不友好或冷漠的人们可以用meaner than a junkyard dog来形容。||Junkyard dogs生活在垃圾场。凶狠的狗通常用来看护这类场所。有人试图进入这类场所时，它们便狂吠或攻击。然而，有些人看上去凶狠极具威胁，实际没那么严重。我们就说his bark is worse than his bite.

"Smelling your feet is not ’sleeping together. ’ You’ve got a lot to learn. " She seemed thinner and meaner .

“闻你的脚的味道可不算“睡在一起”。你要学的东西还多着呢。”她看上去更瘦了，也更为刻薄。

Gregory: This reorganization and the new company policies will make us leaner and meaner .

Gregory：这次重组加上新的公司章程将使我们减轻负担，提高效率。

The companies that survived the emerging market crises of the past 10 years have emerged leaner, meaner and with diversified portfolios.

从过去10年新兴市场危机中挺过来的企业，如今已变得更加精简、更为出色，拥有多样化的投资组合。

She wrote to him once and, when he did not reply, she wrote "a second, meaner letter, " he said.

她头回写信给他，他没有回信，她就写来了“言深意切的第二封信”，凯莱赫先生说。

The goal: to turn the PLA into a leaner, meaner fighting force.

其目的是把解放军转变成为一支精简的有战斗力的军队。

But the commission has learnt its lesson and got meaner with allowances, thus pushing up the price in phase two.

然而委员会已经学乖了，发放许可更加吝啬，因而推动第二阶段的价格一路上扬。

New research has revealed the do-gooders amongst us live longer than the meaner , less charitable people.

新研究发现，行善者比那些不慷慨、不宽容的人活得更长。

Still more, have I not the right to control to evade-to scorn-the fabrications of yet meaner intellects than my own?

再说，为什么我就无权去约束，规避，谴责那些智慧低下的人们所捏造出来的无稽之谈呢？

Is China getting meaner to foreign companies?

中国对外国企业正变得越来越小气？

"We got a little fat and happy lately. We need to be a little leaner and meaner . " D’Antoni said.

最近，我们变得又胖又满足。我们需要变得更瘦一些，对自己更苛刻一。