Even so, on the much-derided British side of the business, any improvement is encouraging.

即便如此，英国葡萄酒业过去曾备受嘲讽，所以任何进步都可喜可贺。

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They think it is a revamped version of an earlier, much-derided scheme for a "grand canal" from Seoul to Busan.

他们认为这只是早前备受嘲笑的“韩版大运河”(从首尔到釜山)方案的改版。

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Facebook has disguised the system as a simple upgrade to Flyers, its much-derided system for selling cheap ads on a self-service basis.

Facebook将该系统伪装成一种简单的Flyers升级版，后者在自我服务的基础上销售廉价广告，因而备受诟病。

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The other is a widening of the tax base after some much-derided one-off measures by the previous government.

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Indeed, Ms Davidson hints at such a prospect in her speech today when she says "the much-derided and little-understood Barnett Formula is already in its death throes".

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The fact that the sites largely avoid the much-derided practices of aggregators and content farms in favor of building passionate communities (be they fans of the Philadelphia Eagles or the Android operating system), also helps attract magazine-quality advertisers.

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