It can involve physical violence. Or it can be verbal -- for example,insults or threats.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

So, there are multiple ways, at multiple levels, that Nabokov is defending his work in this afterword. For one thing, he insults the publishers.

因此，在这篇后记中，纳博科夫在多种不同层面上,为他的作品辩护，一方面，他侮辱他的出版商。

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They're throwing out insults, maybe they're tickling each other, maybe they're making fun of each other, maybe they're making fun of themselves, and there's some aggression to it.

他们会说伤人的话，胳肢别人，取笑对方，取笑自己，而这些打闹是有一定的侵略性的。

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Rickey was president of the team. He wanted to find a black player who could deal with the insults and racial pressure he would face in the league.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

The e-mails included personal insults to dissenters of C.R.U.studies.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

They enjoy attacking each other with funny insults.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

The pontiff urged Catholics to help convert those confused by witchcraft, criticizing suggestions that such evangelism insults other faiths.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Many in the country's urban elite and middle class routinely use such insults when referring to rural residents.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Police Colonel Mehrdad Omidi, who runs the Internet crime division, stated in the Iranian press,Saturday, that what he calls "insults and spreading of lies,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

And Red Shirts say those insults are used as an excuse to deny rural voters and the poor a say in the nation's politics.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

And Malema during his news conference Thursday hurled insults at a white reporter and expelled him for a question he felt was an affront.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

But,she adds, hurling insults at London rather than at Washington is less risky for Tehran, especially if Iran harbors any notions of a rapprochement with the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02