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the anguished rage of a mother at what has been done to her daughter, the vindictive envy of the old wife passed over for the new, a child's bewildered pain and fear.

一位母亲为她女儿的遭遇所承受的痛苦愤怒，一位糟糠妻对新妇所展现的怀恨嫉妒，一个孩子茫然的痛苦和恐惧。

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I'm a suspect because I'm a petty, vindictive jerk?

我有嫌疑 是因为我是个卑鄙 报复心重的混蛋?。

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Sure, there could be a vindictive, terrible principal who unfairly fires good teachers for bad reasons, but the assumption is that a school with that problem will fail in the marketplace due to underqualified teachers and bad morale.

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To many people, the move seemed a vindictive attack on friends and former employees.

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Yet before the thing was over, he was indicted by a vindictive prosecutor.

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