He seemed to take a perverse pleasure in being disagreeable.

他似乎在招人厌恶中得到一种反常的乐趣。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

There are many things in life that you will take great pleasure in doing that will not be comfortable.

在一生中，你能从很多行之不易的事情中体会到巨大的快乐。

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Don't assume, however, that I take pleasure in it: opposite the essential contradiction, I maintain my human contradiction.

然而，不要认为，我以之为乐：相对于本质矛盾的对立，我坚持人的对立矛盾。

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And the king would take pleasure in watching the series of events, which would judge whether or not the man had done wrong in loving the princess.

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We ought to remain a little aloof and take pleasure in this aloofness, the interweave of a given masterpiece.

并享受着这种冷漠，伴着颤抖来品味名著。

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Can we altogether dispense with the idea that certain things we take pleasure in are better or worthier than others?

我们能摒弃这个观点吗,即我们某些喜好，比其它更好或更有价值？

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Order vanished with a speed and treachery that shocked even Medan's residents, who can, in the best of times, take perverse pleasure in their city's famously brutal reputation.

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Mr Wasun is exploiting a market in tales of distress: Thais and foreigners alike take pleasure in believing that Thailand's nouveaux riches are now nouveaux pauvres.

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In fact, Ozzie Guillen, himself, seems to take pleasure in having the reputation of a troublemaker.

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