The ugly stench that starts emanating from the plant as it begins to bloom is actually an example of nature's false advertising.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

And they attribute it to the fact that, for all sorts of reasons, the ugly kid just matters less to the parent.

他们把这个现象归因为，不知道为什么，父母就是没那么喜欢丑小孩。

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Something might be short at one point and become tall at another point, ugly at one point and become beautiful-- like the ugly duckling.

一个事物可能在某一时刻很矮,然后在另一时刻又会变高,某一时刻很丑,然后变得很美,就像丑小鸭一样

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He didn't want to see his ugly bedroom or the cold bathroom with its cracked mirror and gray floor.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

This is like Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

就像是《黄金三镖客》中的,克林特·伊斯特伍德一样

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He thought of his room with its horrible yellow wallpaper, the old bed with its ugly red cover.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

I was watching a poker game once on TV and somebody who lost said, and I quote, "They beat me like an ugly stepchild" and the fate of the ugly stepchild is, in fact, not a very good fate but this is not a good study.

有一次我看电视扑克比赛，一个输的人说，我引用他的话”他们把我像丑陋的继子女一样揍了“,丑陋的继子女的命运，确实不是好命运，但这个研究也不是好研究。

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The debate has taken an ugly turn at times.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

It's Huxley that said woe to the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact, nuclear collapse.

赫胥黎说过,一个美丽的理论,被丑陋的事实所抹杀，核坍塌，真是科学的悲剧。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The debate,in some cases,has turned ugly.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

There's a whole bunch of stuff at the top which is wrapping in an ugly way 'cause I've made my font so big.

顶部有一大堆封装好的东西,看起来很丑，因为我们的字体设置的很大。

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And it's called Silly because it's really a rather ugly program. It's certainly not the right way to write a program to do this.

它之所以被称为Silly因为,它实在是一个相当丑的程序,当然以这种方式去写一个程序是不对的。

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Well, put a pretty face here, an ugly face here, see if the baby prefers to look at the pretty one.

在这边放一张漂亮的脸庞,在这边放一张丑陋的脸庞,观察婴儿是否更喜欢注视漂亮的那个

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Adults think that when an ugly kid misbehaves it's because they have an ugly soul while the attractive kid, "oh, that little scamp, somebody must have been bothering him."

大人觉得当丑小孩行为不当时,是因为他们的灵魂很丑陋,如果是好看的小孩行为不当，”那个小顽皮，一定是别人烦到他了“

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The study observed people in a shopping--in a parking lot of a supermarket and found that parents were a lot rougher to the kids if their kids are ugly than if their kids are good looking.

研究人员在一个超市的停车场里观察,并发现父母对丑小孩的态度,会比对漂亮小孩的态度更粗暴。

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and I don't know how to phrase this in a politically correct way, but the parents of ugly kids are likely to themselves be ugly people and maybe what they're finding is just ugly people are more violent than good-looking people.

我不知道怎么用不会引起政治争论的话来说，但丑小孩的父母往往也长得丑,也许这个研究的发现是长得丑的人,比长得好看的人更粗暴。

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