He regretted, however, that the United States was unlikely to impose "the rule of law in countries like Iraq," partly because of "a pusillanimous fear of military casualties."

他深感愧疚，然而，美国不可能信奉“像伊拉克那样的法律统治的国家”这样的信条。

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The American press not only had a field day reporting the details but not infrequently lectured their pusillanimous British colleagues about American ideas of press freedom.

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Hence his venomous anger at postwar England's "sycophantic, phlegmatic and pusillanimous" upper middle classes, among whom the right accent was far more valuable than a high IQ.

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