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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

  • -- Edwin Hubbell Chapin 埃德温·哈贝尔·查宾

炫耀是虚伪的信号。

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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

当我们远离全球变暖，京都议定书，当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓，当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时，我们发出了一个可怕的信息，那就是表里不一和伪善。

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I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.

我在吃香料减肥法。根据赫什博士的临床试验和研究，这是一种神奇的粉末，它基本上通过嗅觉向大脑发出信号，表明你已经饱了。

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People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

当你处理种族和阶级问题时，人们无法忍受，有时也会处理教会的问题，你给出的观点会冲淡虚伪。

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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

说话要得体，尽量少说话，但一定要简明扼要;因为言语的结局，不是炫耀，乃是叫人明白。

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I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

我不能为一夫一妻制或任何与之相反的东西摇旗呐喊;这取决于个人和情况。

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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

如果美不是天才，它通常至少表明了动物的高度狡猾。

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Not one more dime for countries that burn our flag.

不要再给那些烧我们国旗的国家一分钱。

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