“那是你的问题。”她刻薄地说。

'That's your problem,' she remarked unkindly.

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“早干什么去了！”我母亲刻薄地说。

'Too late!' said my mother tartly.

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他相当刻薄地说，来看我还不如去干别的事。

He said, rather hurtfully, that he had better things to do than come and see me.

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Whenever Johnson is being arrogant and mean about Paradise Lost, invariably he's on to something, and here he's telling us that Milton's gone too far. He's taken his allegory too far.

约翰逊任何时候都对《失乐园》报以傲慢且刻薄的态度，不可避免地，他是想表达着什么，在这里他想告诉我们,弥尔顿做得太过了，他在寓言上走得过远。

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