咬文嚼字

There was no open warfare between the two women; there was only an armed neutrality, broken every now and then by brief feminine skirmishes and transient wordy tempests.

这两个女人之间倒没有公开的战争；仅仅存在着一种武装的中立状态，时而有些短促的婆婆妈妈的小冲突或转瞬即逝的咬文嚼字之争，打破了这种中立。

They were spending the rest of their lives reading fifteenth—hand opinions, taking pleasant naps, and drooling out to yearn ing students the anemic and wordy bookishness which they called learning

他们从此就把有生之年用来研读那些已经转手了十五遍的思想学说，快乐地睡午觉，以及唾沫飞溅地向那些渴求知识的学生们讲授他们称为"学问"的那些毫无生气，口罗里口罗嗦，咬文嚼字的东西。

Byron's diction, though unequal and frequently faulty, has on the whole a freedom, copiousness and vigor.

拜伦的咬文嚼字，虽然不平等，频频失误，已对整个一个自由、篇幅和活力。

You needn't mince words in your speech.

你不必咬文嚼字。不适合

While this may seem like mincing words, there is in fact a profound difference.

虽然这点不同看起来像咬文嚼字，但实际上存在着深奥的区别。

He was a more than commonly candid English gentleman in his avowed dislike of the poet's nonsense, verbiage and verse

他比一般无偏见的英国绅士更加公然地宣称：他讨厌诗人的言之无物、冗词赘语和咬文嚼字。

He was a more than commonly c and id English gentleman in his avowed dislike of the poet's nonsense, verbiage and verse

他比一般无偏见的英国绅士更加公然地宣称：他讨厌诗人的言之无物、冗词赘语和咬文嚼字。

He was a more than commonly candid English gentleman in his awowed dislike of the poet's nonsense, verbiage and verse.

他比一般无偏见的英国绅士更加公然地宣称：他讨厌诗人的言之无物、冗词赘语和咬文嚼字。

He was a more than commonly candid English gentleman in his avow ed dislike of the poet's nonsense, verbiage and verse

他比一般无偏见的英国绅士更加公然地宣称：他讨厌诗人的言之无物、冗词赘语和咬文嚼字。

The legal pavane included pages of discussion of whether begging is speech, or begging is behavior.

判令里连篇累牍咬文嚼字地讨论乞讨是言论还是行为。

I use an example quoted by Hu Jiaqi:"It is reported that America separates the DNA of a kind of virus by making use of genetic technology and combines it with another kind of DNA. Finally, they get a kind of virulent biological agent called a "pyrotoxin". Someone discloses in private that 20 grams of such a kind of biological agent could result in the global death of 6 billion people due to infection."

我在这里例举胡家奇所引用过的例子："据报道，美国利用转基因技术，将一种病毒的DNA分离出来，与另外一种DNA进行结合，拼结成一种剧毒的"热毒素"生物战剂，且私下有人透露，这种生物战剂只需20克，就可以导致全球60亿人全部感染死亡。"

Waiting, for the queers and the coons and the Reds and the Jews.

等待着疯子和黑人还有红色共产主义者还有犹太人