A state of being derided

被嘲弄的状态

Very close and trusted friends share confidences candidly. They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed of derided ,and their confidences will be honored.--Robert Louis Steveson, British novelist and poet

亲密而互相信任的朋友之间彼此赤诚相见,他们不会被戏弄和嘲笑,因而心理踏实无虑,他们之间这种信任会受到尊重。英国小说家、诗人史蒂文森

Su Dongpo derided this as poor and faulty observation, saying in his own poem that

苏东坡认为王安石观察有误,作诗讽喻

They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed or derided , and their confidences will be honored

他们不会被戏弄和嘲笑,因而心里踏实无虑,他们之间这种信任会受到人们的尊敬。

They derided his efforts as childish

他们嘲笑他的努力是幼稚的举动。

They derided his efforts

他们嘲笑他的做法

They derided his efforts(as childish).

他们嘲笑他的做法(很幼稚).

Gazing up to the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity

我抬头疑视着黑暗,感到自己是一个被虚荣心驱使和拨弄的可怜虫。

Alternately derided and praised for building a $5 billion annual business by transforming coffee from a 50-cent daily staple into a $3 treat, Starbucks Corp. has let its prices slip below many of its competitors.

星巴克将咖啡从50美分的日常饮品改变成3美元的美味佳品,并成为一个年盈利50亿美元的企业,人们对这样的做法时而嘲讽时而赞扬,然而星巴克的价位总是低于很多竞争者。

and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies

这时,对电幕上那个孤独挨骂的异端,那个谎言世界里真理和健全的孤胆卫士,他从心底里同情。

||1: THE night before Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi voted in their primaries, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum made their final appeals at a forum in an ornate old theatre in downtown Birmingham. ||2: Mitt Romney, whom Mr Gingrich has relentlessly derided as “a moderate from Massachusetts”, did not attend; nor did the libertarian Ron Paul. ||3: Both candidates were asked how they would “lead our nation back to God”. Mr Gingrich railed against “anti-Christian bigotry” among America’s “elites”. Mr Santorum boasted that he would “talk about the importance of faith in public life”. ||4: In other words, they delivered a solid hour of conservative red meat to a ferociously carnivorous audience. ||5: A poll released earlier that day showed a majority of voters in both states believing that Barack Obama was a Muslim (he is a Christian) and doubting evolution. Eight in ten voters in both states identified themselves as evangelical Christians, the highest proportions so far.

||1: 阿拉巴马州和密西西比州共和党人在投票选举总统参选人的前夜，在伯明翰城区装饰一新的老剧院里，Newt Gingrich和Rick Santorum进行了最后的造势演说。 ||2: 而被Gingrich嘲笑为“马萨诸塞州温和派”的Mitt Romney并没有到场，自由派的Ron Paul也没来。 ||3:当两位候选人被问到如何“把国家带回上帝面前”时，Gingrich把美国“精英”中的那些“反基督教偏执狂”责备了一通，而Santorum则吹嘘他会“讨论信仰对公众生活的重要性”。||4:换句话说，他们花了整整一个小时，在保守派观众面前大谈保守议题，如同给凶猛的野兽喂食红肉。||5:根据先前的民调显示，这两个州的大部分选民都认为奥巴马是穆斯林（其实他是基督徒），并且不相信进化论，而80%的选民把自己定义为福音派基督徒，创下了历史新高。

||1:But the campaign’s opponents have changed tactics, too.||2:Official monitors have blocked its website.||3:Tweeters in favour of the ban, derided by campaigners in the kingdom as “eggs” for leaving blank the oval space for their own portrait that the messaging service provides, are putting out reams of negative comment.||4:Some have sought to dampen support for women wanting to drive by spreading false rumours of an imminent government move to lift the ban.

||1:但是活动者的对手们也改变了战术。||2:政府监控人员已经封锁了网站。||3:支持此项禁令的推特用户发布了大量的负面评论。他们曾被抗议者们嘲讽为鸡蛋，为了自己存储转发业务提供的肖像画留下椭圆空白。||4:有些人就在探索着通过散播假的谣言譬如政府在迫切的推行禁令等，去抑制那些支持女性驾车的说法。

||1:“THAT city will, in the course of time, become the granary of the world, the emporium of commerce, the seat of manufactures, the focus of great monied operations,” predicted DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York in 1824.||2:He was speaking about the effects of the Erie Canal, which connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River.||3:Originally derided as “Clinton’s folly”, the canal helped to open up the west, allowing New York to benefit enormously from an explosion of trade.||4:Within 15 years of the opening, New York was the busiest port in America, moving more than Boston, Baltimore and New Orleans combined.

||1:德维特?克林顿，纽约当时的统治者，在1824年谈及连接五大湖区和哈德孙河的伊利运河时曾预言“城市经过时间的洗礼，将成为世界的粮仓，商业中心，制造业园区，吸引大型盈利项目的关注。||2:”起初此言论被嘲笑是“克林顿式的愚蠢”，然而西部地区因运河而实现开放，纽约因激增的贸易往来而迅速地发展起来。||3:运河开通后的15年间，纽约成为美国最繁忙的港口，吞吐量超过波士顿、巴尔的摩及新奥尔良的总量。||4:纽约市经济发展局局长宾斯基预计在纽约市兴建一所应用科技大学将造就一个“伊利运河时刻”。

||1:FEW events in Italy’s recent history have had a more crushing effect on morale than the wrecking of the Costa Concordia, an Italian-owned and skippered liner that capsized off the island of Giglio in January 2012.||2:The giant vessel foundered with the loss of 32 lives as Italy, battered by years of economic stagnation even before the euro-zone crisis, seemed bound for default on its vast public debts.||3:Silvio Berlusconi had just resigned as prime minister, internationally derided for his “Bunga Bunga” sex parties and relationship with a young Moroccan, Karima El-Mahroug.||4:Confirmation that the Costa Concordia’s captain, Francesco Schettino, had left the ship before completing its evacuation prompted a bout of mortified soul-searching.

||1:在意大利近几年的历史上，很少有事件的轰动性能超过2012年1月意属豪华邮轮Costa Concordia 在吉廖岛附近触礁沉没的事故。||2:这艘满载财富的邮轮同时也带走了32个意大利人的生命，由于多年来一直遭受经济停滞的影响，意大利在欧元区危机爆发之前就似乎已经开始拖欠巨额的债务。||3:不过前总理西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼的事件显然是个例外，当时他已经辞去了总理一职，全世界都在嘲笑他荒诞的性爱聚会以及他和摩洛哥雏妓卡莉玛·艾尔·马罗格。||4:可以确认的是，在邮轮完成疏散之前，船长已经提前逃离了邮轮，这一行为引起了人们对于人性的深刻反省。

But some NPEs are derided as trolls because their sole purpose seems to be to exploit the legal system by demanding licensing fees from companies, sometimes for questionable patents.

但是有些非职业实体机构因为其唯一目的就是利用法律体系，从使用公司收取专利费，而被贬称为诱饵公司。

Facebook has disguised the system as a simple upgrade to Flyers , its much-derided system for selling cheap ads on a self-service basis.

Facebook将该系统伪装成一种简单的Flyers升级版，后者在自我服务的基础上销售廉价广告，因而备受诟病。

Mr Obama has been derided for leading from behind, but he was far from alone in his hesitations.

奥巴马被嘲笑为“幕后领导”，而在利比亚问题上犹豫不决的远不止他一人。

Pakistan’s government is weak and generally derided .

巴基斯坦政府不但软弱而且普遍是受嘲讽的对象。

MobileMe, rightly derided for being buggy and expensive, is expected to get a major overhaul to tie in with the iPhone 5’s launch.

被嘲笑为过时以及昂贵的MobileMe，被期望大大修改一下以便用于准备上市的iphone5。

Clinton’s effort to mandate school uniforms, for example, became emblematic of what liberals derided as presidential tinkering.

比如，克林顿曾推行强制性校服政策，这是被自由派人士嘲笑为“总统的修修补补”的标志性事件。

Big software firms derided the idea that anyone would put their trust in free software written by mysterious online collectives.

大软件公司对这种想法嗤之以鼻，认为没人会相信诡异的网上集体写出的免费软件。

But maybe the word has simply become tainted and is seen as a proxy for that other dreaded and derided phenomenon, bureaucracy.

但也可能这个词只是被玷污了，被人们视为官僚主义这一让人恐惧又备受嘲弄的现象的代名词。

At the time, the paper was largely ignored, if not derided by many senior policymakers.

当时，那篇文章没有引起太多重视，许多资深政策制定者甚至嗤之以鼻。

Its stimulus measures, once derided as puny, have delivered a bigger bang for the buck than anyone expected.

德国的经济刺激措施曾被嘲笑为微不足道，但其影响却超出了所有人的预期。

The second reason for optimism is India’s much-derided democracy.

第二个值得乐观的原因是印度备受嘲弄的民主。

Among many Iranians, an unfamiliar emotion is evinced for the long-derided Arab: envy.

对长期遭人耻笑的阿拉伯来说，许多伊朗人心里的一种不常有的情感被挑起：嫉妒。

Perhaps a human-rights dialogue between China and the EU, long derided by liberal critics, is actually doing some good.

或许中国与欧盟之间关于人权问题的对话，虽长期被自由主义评论家取笑，实际上取得了一些成效。

Even so, on the much-derided British side of the business, any improvement is encouraging.

即便如此，英国葡萄酒业过去曾备受嘲讽，所以任何进步都可喜可贺。

For many months, we have been teased, even derided , for talking about hope. But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism.

几个月以来，我们因为谈论希望而被戏弄、甚至被嘲笑，但是我们一直相信，希望不是盲目的乐观。

He was instantly derided by most of the Parisian intellectual elite.

几乎是立刻，他遭到了多数巴黎知识分子的嘲弄。