Mr. Li: But it is NOT rotten.

李先生：但是它不是腐烂的水果。

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He hammered it into me that I had not suddenly become a rotten goalkeeper.

他反复向我灌输，我并没有突然变成一个糟糕的守门员。

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Not just the first-year ice might go, but also some of the "rotten" multiyear ice that Barber encountered.

不只是首年冰会融化，而且一些巴贝遇到的那种“烂的”多年冰也会融化。

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Thus, to say that one does not like rotten tomatoes is not to say that one does not like tomatoes.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Earlier this year the UN drew up modest plans to help El Salvador, where the institutions are not as rotten as Guatemala's but the murder rate last year, at 66 per 100, 000 people, was more than 50% higher.

ECONOMIST: Justice in Central America

One way to help potential victims of corporate crime is to give employees more power to diversify their 401(k) plan and not get stuck with a rotten nest egg.

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