When they groused about the parking regulations, they did it with good humour.

他们十分幽默地表达了对泊车规则的不满。

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I really don't want it, "Nelson groused."

“我真的不想要它，”尼尔森抱怨道。

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Yet five years ago, around the time his third company, a social network called Tribe.net, was headed for failure, he groused in an interview that he had not yet made Silicon Valley's "A-list."

然而五年之前，他的第三家公司社交网络Tribe.net却走向了失败，当时，他在一次采访中发牢骚说自己还未能跻身硅谷顶级之列。

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Yet five years ago, around the time his third company, a social network called Tribe.net, was headed for failure, he groused in an interview that he had not yet made Silicon Valley's "A-list."

然而五年之前，他的第三家公司社交网络Tribe.net却走向了失败，当时，他在一次采访中发牢骚说自己还未能跻身硅谷顶级之列。

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