No matter how flattering a style could be, if it requires you to comb over thinning strands, the benefits of the style would be lost.

因为不论一个发型多么亮丽，如果需要你…那么发型的好处也会丢失。

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A one-piece is more flattering than a bikini.

一件式女泳装比比基尼泳装更衬人。

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It wasn't a very flattering photograph.

这张照片照得不如本人好看。

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Roach's cramped Hollywood gym, the Wild Card, is now a boxing mecca, and the trainer enjoys the trappings of success a slick Mercedes in the garage, the ability to pamper his mother and a flattering appointment as a U.S. Olympic boxing team coach.

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From there his route to power was typical of the times: freedom rallies, imprisonment by the British authorities, release, tea with the governor, a constitutional conference and a flattering independence ceremony conducted by a British royal.

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It's flattering and a more slimming look than the extra thickness leggings would add under a skirt or dress -- the only way some schools want them to be worn.

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