Lengthy periods of economic stagnation or decline have almost always left society more mean-spirited and less inclusive, and have usually stopped or reversed the advance of rights and freedoms.
长期的经济停滞或衰退几乎总是使社会变得更加刻薄、更缺乏包容性，通常还会阻止或逆转权利和自由的进步。
The big question is what does the ruling mean for the spirited battle between Internet companies and content providers?
一个重要的问题是这次裁决对于互联网公司和内容提供商之间风生水起的战役意味着什么？
The criticism is mean-spirited. If you use insulting or degrading language, or put down the person in any way, they will focus on that, and not on the rest of the criticism.
如果你使用了侮辱性的语言，或是用任何一种方式羞辱了被批评者，他们关心的就会是这个，而不会是批评的其他部分。
Some of the E-mail messages, purloined last November, were mean-spirited, others were dismissive of contrarian views, and others revealed a timid reluctance to share data.
去年11月遭到偷窃的一些邮件信息卑鄙无耻，其他邮件信息拒绝发表相反的看法还有其他信息揭露出胆小怕事不愿分享数据。
"Mentioning parents can easily become mean-spirited attacks that interfere with the couple's ability to address the underlying issues, " she told HuffPost.
她对《赫芬顿邮报》说：“提及父母就很有可能变成刻薄的攻击，影响双方解决眼前问题的能力。”
If you allow the mean-spirited opinions of others to make you waver in your purpose, you incur a double shame.
如果你让别人的那些不怀好意的意见动摇你的目标，你就招致双倍的耻辱。
The lesson, in a cold and mean-spirited age, is to remind us of a quiet human quality that is seldom adequately praised or celebrated: Grace.
在一个冷漠、性情乖僻的时代，这一启示是要提醒我们注意一种不引人注目、很少受到人们足够的称赞或颂扬的人类品质：宽厚。
The lesson, in a cold and mean-spirited age, is to remind us of a quiet human quality that is seldom adequately praised or celebrated: Grace.
在一个冷漠、性情乖僻的时代，这一启示是要提醒我们注意一种不引人注目、很少受到人们足够的称赞或颂扬的人类品质：宽厚。
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