刻毒的人

The master of them was an acrid man.

掌管他们的是个刻毒的人。

The cold north wind pointed with barbed shafts, icy, malevolent, greedy, blighting, paralyzing.

寒冷的北风带着有刺的矛尖吹来，冷冰冰地、刻毒地、贪婪地，具有破坏性，使人疲软无力。

Gorbals Mick, his nickname in snootier corners of Parliament and the press, was a cruel dig at his poor childhood in Glasgow—and, for those attuned to that city's sectarianism, a gibe at his Irish Catholic roots.

这是他在议会与新闻界中较为自高自大的那群人里的绰号，这个绰号刻毒地挖苦其在格拉斯哥的贫苦的童年时代，以及对应于那个城市的教派主义意识，嘲弄其爱尔兰罗马天主教的背景。

Gorbals Mick, his nickname in snootier corners of Parliament and the press, was a cruel dig at his poor childhood in Glasgow—and, for those attuned to that city's sectarianism, a gibe at his Irish Catholic roots.

高伯的爱尔兰佬[6]，这是他在议会与新闻界中较为自高自大的那群人里的绰号，这个绰号刻毒地挖苦其在格拉斯哥的贫苦的童年时代，以及对应于那个城市的教派主义意识，嘲弄其爱尔兰罗马天主教的背景。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。