When he finished venting, I didn't respond to his remarks, other than blandly telling him I would convey his message to my superiors (which I never did), before moving on to the business at hand.

他发泄完之后，我并未反击其评论，而是温和地告诉他会在继续手头的工作之前帮他带话给上峰(不过我从来不会这么做)。

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"It is not a good thing for senior officers to be making derogatory remarks about their commanders, their political superiors, in any kind of setting, certainly not in a formal setting and certainly not when the news media are present."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

He sent an oblique warning to his superiors that President George W. Bush should delete mention of enemy fire from his remarks, when presenting the award to Tillman's family at his memorial service.

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