Everyone knows Mr. Brown is a man with an ax to grind.

大家都知道布朗先生是一位城府极深的人。

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Then he wanted to: with an ax to break the bell, it can be hijacked.

然后他就想：用斧头把铃铛打碎就可以把它弄走了。

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Haven't millions of years of evolution already determined that the vast bulk of mothers would sever their heads with an ax to protect their offspring?

难道数百万年的进化历程还没有让我们认清绝大多数母亲为了保护自己的孩子可以舍弃性命这一事实么？

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Mr. Smith's opponents make him seem like someone with an ax to grind.

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When that input is positive feedback, Bhaskaran suggests that retailers prompt users to push their positive comments back to the App Store as well, helping to keep ratings there from skewing towards detractors with an ax to grind.

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At 3 a.m. he gave the order to abandon the embassy building because there were Twitter feeds saying an attack was coming, and he told stories like that of the embassy nurse who started "smashing computer hard drives with an ax" to protect classified information.

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