1. Forster complained about what they saw as James''s squeamishness in the treatment of sex and other possibly controversial material, or dismissed his style as difficult and obscure, relying heavily on extremely long sentences and excessively latinate language.
福斯特抱怨说他们认为詹姆斯在性别和其他可能有争议的材料的处理上过于苛刻,或者对于他严重依赖超长句子和过分拉丁化的语言的作风感到困惑难解。
2. The elder man, though not by any manner of means an old maid or a prude, said it was nothing short of a crying scandal that ought to be put a stop to instanter to say that women of that stamp (quite apart from any oldmaidish squeamishness on the subject), a necessary evil, w ere not licensed and medically inspected by the proper authorities, a thing, he could truthfully state, he, as a paterfamilias, was a stalwart advocate of from the very first start.
155那个年长的人尽管并不是个老处女或假正经,却说道:这号女人(在这个问题上,他丝毫不曾囿于老处女式的洁癖)是无法避免的危害,可是有关当局既不发给她们执照,又不要求她们做体检,真是可耻极了,必须即刻加以纠正。说实在的,关于这一问题,自己作为一家之父,从一开始就坚决主张这么做。
3. Many doctors working on the battlefield of terminal suffering think that only squeamishness demands a firm difference between passive and active euthanasia on request.
许多医生一直在为解除病人临终前的痛苦而奋斗着。他们认为在病人请求安乐死时,根本无法截然区分被动与主动的安乐死。
4. You''ll have to overcome your squeamishness if you want to be come a nurse.
如果你想成为护士的话,你必须克服胆小过敏。
5. You''ll have to overcome your squeamishness if you want to become a nurse.
如果你想成为护士的话,你必须克服胆小过敏。
6. The truth is that given our ignorance and squeamishness aboutmental health, it is probably better to shut up about it.
事实是,鉴于我们对心理健康的无知和过分拘谨,采取缄默的态度或许更好。
7. Hunting is the way of life for the Inuit, and staying in Greenland leaves little room for squeamishness.
狩猎是因纽特人的一种生活方式,生活在格陵兰,你绝对不会感到拘谨。
8. The life of evil did not frighten him, nor did religious squeamishness raise anybody in his estimation.
邪恶的生命不能惊恐他,任何宗教神经质的人都不会出现在他的评价里面。
9. Now the obstacles are a shortage of funds and foreign squeamishness about dealing with the junta.
现在的障碍是缺乏资金,再就是外国援助方和军政府难以协商。
10. There''s a market for human fetuses in the Dark Arts, and believe me, your mother had not a whit of your squeamishness.
黑魔法中有交易人类胎儿的事,相信我,你的母亲不是讨厌你的出生。
11. However, if it were a matter of a vampire to me or mine, I think I could overcome my squeamishness long enough to do a little roustabout work on the stroke of twelve.
无论如何,大概我是吸血鬼的话,我想我能克服自己长期以来的神经质,在钟声敲响十二点的时候去码头找点活干。
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12. Some Chinese euphemisms also stem from squeamishness.
有些中国委婉语同样脱胎于拘谨这一因素。
13. Despite our squeamishness about cultural stereotypes, there are tons of studies out there showing marked and quantifiable differences between Chinese and Westerners when it comes to parenting.
在养育孩子方面,尽管我们不依从老一套的方式,还是有大量的研究表明,中国人与西方人有相当多的、显著的不同。