世故

The nation is divided between the wholesome Joe Sixpacks in the heartland and the oversophisticated, overeducated, o-versecularized denizens of the coasts.

美国已经分裂成心脏地带生气勃勃的草根民众，和两岸太世故、受太多教育、太世俗化的居民。

It Reading celebrated scientific and engineering achievements by openly parading the sophisticated techniques used in construction.

它通过公然炫耀在建筑中使用久经世故的技术显示了著名的科学和工程成就。

For many years, the advertisement and the movie have together left behind the man in the audience heart roughy self-confident,The woman fashionable suave smokes like a chimney image,but Stops talking actually raises the cigarette to have the poisonous incident.

多年来，广告与电影一道在观众心里留下了男人粗犷自信，女人时髦世故的吞云吐雾的形象，却绝口不提香烟有多毒一事。

For instance, Chinese people are honest but slick, sincere but shrewd, skeptical but credulous, rigid but flexible, self-serving but loyal, sophisticated but inconsiderate, neutral but extreme, frugal but ostentatious, old-fashioned but fashionable, low maintenance but dreaming of fortune, superstitious but not religious, team-spirited but competitive, picky but mediating, rumorous but not nosy, understanding the value of time but advocating 'take things slowly', etc., etc..

比方说，中国人耿直却又圆滑，坦诚却又世故，多疑却又轻信，古板却又灵活，讲实惠却又重义气，尚礼仪却又少公德，主中庸却又走极端，美节俭却又喜排场，守古法却又赶时髦，知足常乐却又梦想暴发，烧香算命却又无宗教感，爱抱团儿却又好窝里斗，爱挑刺儿却又会打圆场，不爱管闲事却又爱说闲话，懂得&只争朝夕&的道理却又主张&慢慢来&，等等，等等。

I saw him a talkable boy and I found him already combined a bit sophisticated feel.

我觉得渠貌似一个善谈嘅人，糅合一D世故嘅感觉。

In Taiwan, people describe a person who is diplomatic and slippery as " lao you tiao ".

在台湾也用「老油条」来形容历练丰富、做事圆滑而老於世故的人。

I don't like high society, I'm not someone who likes to go to parties and socialise, I'm shy.

我不喜欢太世故，我不是那种喜欢开Party的人，我很害羞。

It's time I should take my craftier head to my more worldly pillow .

我也该让我这副比较世故的头脑休息休息了。

Ask what emboldens her, as a black woman of modest origins, to challenge the sophisticates of Washington, and she answers like a shot: her deep Baptist faith.

当问起是什么鼓舞着她，作为一位有着谦逊血统的黑人妇女，去挑战华盛顿的那些精明世故之人，她会毫不犹豫的回答：是她深厚的浸信信仰。

There were a lot of innuendoes in the comedian's patter, but Alice, being as innocent as a new-born babe, didn't understand half of it.

这位滑稽演员说的顺口溜中有许多含沙射影的讽刺话，但是爱丽丝十分单纯，不懂世故，她连一半也没听懂。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了