Thumbing his nose at such notions as resource scarcity, Mr Simon wagered that the price of any five commodities chosen by Mr Ehrlich would go down over the following decade.
西蒙对其强调资源稀缺性的观点嗤之以鼻，他打赌说，在随后到来的十年中，埃氏挑选的那五种商品价格必会下跌。
It is a thumbing of the nose at hegemony.
而是对霸权的蔑视。
Given license to express themselves, they sculpted eccentric keystone portraits-workers with comically bandaged faces, poets, a man thumbing his nose at his neighbors-and fanciful grotesques.
这些人拥有抒发自我的资格证书，他们把楔石刻成各种异乎寻常的肖像，脸上滑稽地缠满绷带的工人、装腔作势的诗人、朝着邻居用拇指扇自己鼻子的男人，以及任何他们能够幻想出的离奇形象。
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