There were no mutual concessions; one stood erect, and the others yielded: and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?

并没有双方互相让步的事，一个站得笔直，其他的人就都得顺从。 既遭不到反对，又遭不到冷淡，谁还能使坏性子发脾气呢？

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Gerald is good-natured, but bad-tempered and the young wife has a good family education and strict moral values.

杰拉尔德心地善良，但脾气暴躁，而年轻的妻子则有着良好的家庭教育和严格的道德观念。

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C. area in 1993 to become chief financial officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he and his wife actually settled in the Virginia suburbs--a choice that now generates bad-natured ribbing from opponents.

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