Lewis cynical defiance of federal authority was more than congress would tolerate . 刘易斯对联邦权威的极端蔑视,使国会再也无法容忍。
He had nearly swooned at what lord henry had said in a chance mood of cynical jesting . 亨利勋爵刚才偶然说了句玩世不恭的话,几乎叫他昏倒。
Well, i've had a very bad time, nick, and i'm pretty cynical about everything . 唉,我一直很苦恼,尼克。我简直变成了一个愤世嫉俗的人了,对什么事都看不惯!
The eyes of her image, cynical and sad, wandered from pamela's face to the garish room . 镜子里,她眼光显得那么冷漠和忧郁,从帕米拉的脸上转过去看那间花哨的房间。
The impasse was made worse by jobert's passionate nature, which masqueraded as cynical nonchalance . 若贝尔以玩世不恭的态度掩饰感情奔放的天性,这使局面越发僵化了。
For a minute he literally hated this earthy, cynical world to which one belonged, willy-nilly . 一时之间,他真恨起这个谁都不能不属于其中的、鄙俗而吹毛求疵的世界来。
The american soldier, in spite of wisecracking, sometimes cynical speech, is an intelligent human being . 美国士兵虽聪明自夸,有时发出讥讽的言辞,但总是一个有理智的人。
In a cynical era it is easy to overlook the importance of this institutionalized efficiency and breadth of fiduciary trust . 在这玩世不恭的时代,这种惯常的效率和高度信任的重大意义是容易被人忽视的。
He had sharp, if not brilliant, tongue in his heada gift at times for making crisp and cynical remarks . 他嘴里长了个很锋利的舌头,虽然还说不上雄辩,这是他的一种天赋,有时候能说些切中要害的刻薄话。
We were, in short, not just getting out under the cynical cover of a "decent interval" before the final collapse . 一言以蔽之,我们的目的不光是在“争取一段体面的时间”的巧言掩饰下在最后崩溃之前抽出身来。