You have been foolish to offend him, and you must row back sharpish.

你冒犯他是愚蠢的，你必须立刻悬崖勒马。

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And you don't want to offend him or her.

但是你又不想冒犯他。

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And I have found myself in plenty of situations where I’ve wanted to give someone (my husband, a colleague) what I thought was helpful advice only to inadvertently offend him or her.

我也曾无数次的历经过这种情况，本打算给某人（我丈夫或一个同事）我认为有帮助的建议，结果却只带来了不经心的冒犯。

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And if you're working with your friend, you can tell him or her whatever you're thinking and it's not going to offend him or her and they'll probably comprehend it similarly to how you imagined it in languages that really are a perfect idea of transmission vehicle.

如果你跟朋友一起工作，可以把所思所想都说出来,而不会冒犯他,朋友会以类似的方式,去理解你想象中的事物,语言并不是完美的,思想传导载体。

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The line was replaced with "She isn't a meeskite at all, " but the response was tepid. (Meeskite was an old Yiddish term to describe an unattractive woman.) Grey, who is Jewish, said the lyrics didn't offend him and he was hesitant about changing them.

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As he appeared by video-link from Maghaberry Prison, a prosecution lawyer told the High Court a decision was taken to detain him after police studied video footage of him addressing crowds of demonstrators and allegedly encouraging them to offend.

BBC: Jamie Bryson

We do the president no earthly good if in the course of defending him, we offend both the judges, the jurors and the American public.

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