It may be a function of empathy; we feel badly for the objects of our derision.

这也许是移情作用的一个功能；我们会对自己嘲笑的对象感到抱歉。

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It may be a function of empathy; we feel badly for the objects of our derision. Or it could be selfishness; we realize people won't like us for nattering on meanly about others.

这或许就是移情作用的功能；对他人的嘲笑，让我们感到糟糕极了，或那可能就是自私；我们注意到，人们不乐意别人拿自己当闲扯对象。

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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

主耶和华如此说，你必喝你姊姊所喝的杯。 那杯又深又广，盛得甚多，使你被人嗤笑讥刺。

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Notwithstanding a Nobel Peace Prize (given by an awards committee avowedly anxious to rebuke President Bush) and assorted good works on behalf of Habitat for Humanity, his role as a tyrant-enabler will be an object of scorn and derision rather than the vindication he so transparently, and desperately, seeks.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Tyranny's enabler