He was hurt, genuinely pained to be dismissed in such an offhand way by someone he respected as a competitor.

他觉得受到了伤害，为被他尊为对手的人以这种唐突的方式奚落他而感到痛苦。

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In my work as a family, divorce, and small-claims mediator, I’ve seen countless offhand remarks start a fight or add fuel to an existing fire.

在我的著作《家庭、离婚和小权利请求协调》一书中，我已经目睹了无数的以随便的态度说出的话语引发的争吵或者使现存的问题变得火上浇油而更加严重。

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In my work as a family, divorce, and small-claims mediator, I've seen countless offhand remarks start a fight or add fuel to an existing fire.

在我的著作《家庭、离婚和小权利请求协调》一书中，我已经目睹了无数的以随便的态度说出的话语引发的争吵或者使现存的问题变得火上浇油而更加严重。

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One of us, in a spirit of offhand mischief, may have spread the word that Ilgauskas preferred it this way.

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Gee has gotten in trouble before for offhand remarks, most recently during a memorabilia-for-cash and tattoos scandal that cost football coach Jim Tressel his job.

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However, the limits of the personal benefit test are not boundless, and courts have been unwilling to extend the test to situations of inadvertent tippers, as illustrated by the recent case where a senior executive made offhand comments to his barber who then traded off the tips.

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