I made do with some peanut butter, scooped directly from the jar with a forefinger: why dirty a spoon?

我用花生酱凑合一下，直接用食指从罐子里舀出：何必还要弄脏勺子？

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A dirty cut may go septic.

伤口不干净容易受感染。

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Profit is not a dirty word around here.

在这里，赢利不是一个犯忌的字眼。

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They objected to the personality of Huck -- a rough,dirty and disobedient boy.

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That caused a rebellion and they overthrew the kings, and thereafter, the word king was a dirty word in Roman history.

该事件引发了叛乱,叛军推翻了国王,从此之后,"国王"这个词在罗马历史上成了一个脏字

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When I say dirty, I am referring mostly to like a graffiti. There's a lot of graffiti on walls, on buildings.

我说的脏，主要指的是涂鸦。大楼墙上到处画满了乱七八糟的涂鸦。

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If you are more keen to watch your pennies than counting stars, there are an increasing number of affordable (almost a dirty word here until a couple of years ago) options now available.

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In the process, diesel is becoming less of a dirty word a relic of Detroit's hastily converted petrol engines that were pressed into service as passenger diesels in the aftermath of the 1973 oil shock.

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Instead they decoded cow DNA in a quick and dirty way on a new type of gene decoding machine made by a company called Solexa, with which Sonstegard had been working.

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