So the more you try to please everyone, the more you will displease everyone by being perceived as inconsistent.

所越想取悦每个人，就越会因为被认为前后矛盾而惹恼每个人。

Even the banked flowers below the pictures of Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephens displeased her.

甚至连戴维斯先生斯蒂芬斯先生肖像下面堆放的那些鲜花，也只能使她到讨厌而已。

Ove had looked more than advisably displeased about this, but managed not to say anything.

欧维看上去不怎么乐意，但什么都没说。

" How have I displeased her" ? he asked himself.

" 我有什么不讨她喜欢？" 他问自己。

That displeased him; his alabaster brow furrowed. He shook his head, frowning.

这是他有点不快。他摇了摇头，皱了皱眉他光滑白皙的眉毛。

At some stage in their careers most people will have turned up to work when they were feeling under the weather, be it because of a looming deadline or for fear of displeasing their boss.

在职业生涯的某个阶段，大多数人都是在觉不舒服的时候去上班的，可能是因为临近的最后期限，也可能是担心会让老板不高兴。

Yes, to the last. But if I go on, I shall displease you by saying what I think of persons you esteem. Stop me whilst you can.

“当然 ─应该归于最后一种原因。可是，如果叫我再说下去，说出我对于所器重的那些人是怎么看法，那也会叫不高兴的。趁着现在我能够住嘴的时候，且让我住嘴吧。”

I should have believed him, because I know him; but it displeased me that he should smile, and I thought: " Oh! now that he has had a prize, he has grown saucy" !

我是知道他的品格的，照理应该信任他，不再他计较。可是他的微笑实在使我不快，我想：“这家伙受了奖品，就像煞有介事了哩！”

Andrew did not speak; he was both pleased and displeased that his father understood him. The old man got up and gave the letter to his son.

父亲了解他，这使他又高兴又不高兴。老头子站起来，把信交给儿子。

It is true that a sense of duty may, at times, render it necessary for you to do that which will displease your companions.

尽管责任有时让必须做使伙伴到不快的事，这是个事实。

Up in Mongolia proper, Kublai's younger brother Arigboge was at the head of a conservative faction, displeased with Mongke's China war.

在蒙古本土，忽必烈的弟弟阿里不哥是保守派系的领袖，他对蒙克的对华战非常不满。

They are likely to displease Japan, which is already worried about a Russian military build-up in East Asia.

此举可能会惹怒日本，日本一直对俄罗斯在东亚的军事集结十分担忧。

If in anything I did I displeased you, why didn't you tell me, and I'd have changed.

如果我做了什么事使不高兴，为什么不对我讲？只要说了，我一定会改过来的。

Pleasing one group of people usually means displeasing another group of people.

取悦一群人通常意味着引起另一群人不悦。

A BBC team has been expelled from North Korea because of coverage which displeased the authorities.

因作出“不公正”报道，BBC报道团队遭朝方驱逐。

It wouldn't displease me one bit.

这样我决不会不高兴。

He had an air of utter assurance, of displeasing insolence about him, and there was a twinkle of malice in his bold eyes as he stared at Scarlett, until finally, feeling his gaze, she looked toward him.

他显得非常自负，给人讨厌的傲慢无礼的觉，而且他凝望思嘉时那双放肆的眼睛有一种不怀好意的神色，直到思嘉终于觉到了他的注视而向他望去为止。

They became increasingly threatening in their tone and displeased that he still hadn't contacted them about the sale of his property.

上面言辞激烈地指责他没有就征地一事他们联系。

And in all honesty, I confess that this venturesome excursion was far from displeasing to me.

但白说，我承认这种冒险的游历使我觉得痛快。

And just for one day, would it displease you to return to your fisherman's trade and add this cetacean to the list of those you've already hunted down?

将来您再操叉鱼这一行的时候，把这只鲸科动物加在您曾经打过的鲸鱼账上，您不会不高兴吧？