用一个或两个词来形容人，可能会让事情更糟糕。

Slapping a word or two on a person , canmake thethings worse.

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这个词主要用在形容人，不过形容事物也是没问题的。

It's mainly used for people, but it can be used for things too.

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那这种说法，way out in left field可以用来形容人吗？

You give such good advice. Sometimes other people's advice can be way out in left field.

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And this is precisely the opposite of the tyrant who Plato describes as a person of limitless desires who lacks the most rudimentary kind of governance, namely self-control.

而这正是对比于专制,即柏拉图形容中,拥有无限欲望的人,他们缺少最基本的管理，或说自控。

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Could you describe people who you've met here?

你能给我们形容一下你在这儿认识的人吗？

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As we shall see that word in later times means some powerful individual, but it doesn't mean what it means here, the boss, the single monarchical controller of everything.

正如我们所见,这个词之后用来形容有权力的人,但在那时,它有一个不同的含义,代表首领,君临万物

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