Before those who now, for the sake of the Savage, paid their court to him, Bernard would parade a carping unorthodoxy.

他在因为野蛮而讨好他的想摆出一副离经叛道者的挑剔形象。

For a president who runs hot and cold on nearly all of his advisers, private carping may not mean that much.

对于一个对几乎所有顾问都忽冷忽热的统来说，私下里的吹毛求疵或许并不用那么较真。

And that's mostly like second-rate carping anyways.

不过那大多是些二流的吹毛求疵罢了。

The carping carried immediate political consequences for Democrats.

这种吹毛求疵的行为对民主党带来了直接的政治后果。

Reading and the Democratic Ideal of Education We do not want to seem to be mere carping critics.

阅读与教育的民主理想 我们不想看起来是挑剔的批评家。

Mr Trump has not helped his case by regularly veering off-script, carping about economic imbalances rather than drugs and immigration.

普经常偏离既定剧本，抱怨经济失衡而非毒品和移民问题， 这并未对他的立场有所助益。

Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities that would make her truly desirable as a wife.

爱伦用细声细气地训诫，嬷嬷则用滔滔不绝的唠叨，都在尽力将那些作为淑女贤妻不可少的品质栽培到她身上去。