Science tells us that if he brushes regularly, Lewis probably got the short end of the hygiene stick as far as bites go: Despite the myth, dogs mouths are not cleaner than human mouths.
科学告诉我们,如果他经常刷牙,刘易斯很可能会用卫生棍(指牙齿)的尖端直到去咬:不管是否是神话,狗的嘴巴不会比人干净。
Yet, it is the opponents of aid, not its advocates, who get the short end of the stick.
然而,正是那些援助的反对者而不是支持者,最后甩掉了拐杖。
Hawking extrapolates from anthropology to point out that the inferior culture — us in this case — would get the short end of the stick in any such close encounter of the rude kind.
霍金通过人类学的预测指出在与粗鲁的外星人近距离接触中,我们作为低等文明,将处于完全不利的境地。
We get thrown things ALL the time that we don’t plan for or even like all that much. We usually end up complaining how life is so unfair and we get the short end of the stick…blahdeeblah.
生活中,我们常常遇见各种预料之外的事情,我们常常抱怨生活多么不公平,也常常吃亏…诸如此类。
In the long-fought duel between education and experience, it’s common for “experience” to get the short end of the stick.
在这场学历与经验的长期战斗中,倒霉的一般是“经验”。
How many relationships where one person benefits and the other winds up holding the short end of the stick?
有多少关系中一方获利而另一方握着棒的末端结束?
She sure got the short end of the stick but she was still happy about the success of the party she had organized.
她可真是吃了亏啦,不过她班还是很开心,因为她组织的晚会很成功。
I've received the short end of the stick too many times during the last ten years.
这十年来我受到的不公平待遇太多了。
The Lakers saw the short end of the stick with that in Cleveland, where they had the game well in hand but let complacency take them out of the simple act of running plays.
湖人在与骑士比赛最后时刻的表现应该给以批评,本来他们打得很好并有机会赢得比赛的,可是他们太轻视对手了以致在关键时刻输掉比赛。
I'm afraid the poor people will end up getting the short end of the stick again.
恐怕那儿的穷人还会再次吃亏。
I got the short end of the stick.
我拿到棍子的短的这头。
The second partner got the short end of the stick because he didn't watch out for his own interests.
第二个合股人吃了亏,因为他没有密切注意自己的利益。
The second partner got the short end of the stick because he didn't watch out for his own interests.
第二个合股人吃了亏,因为他没有密切注意自己的利益。
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