Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

"thermally cleansing ""delightfully bad"

Chinese translation:

热切地发泄欲求 / 兴高采烈地做恶

Added to glossary by Wenjer Leuschel (X)
Jun 3, 2004 01:35
19 yrs ago
English term

"thermally cleansing ""delightfully bad"

English to Chinese Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
His personality was beaten out on the twin anvils of the two towns and in the struggle between their two ethoses: the one puritanical, moral, decent, “good”, hiding its sins; the other thermally cleansing but openly corrupt and corrupting: a place where “good” meant “bad”——delightfully bad.
Proposed translations (Chinese)
4 热切地发泄欲求 / 兴高采烈地做恶

Discussion

Wenjer Leuschel (X) Jun 8, 2004:
fervently cleansing (their desires)
Non-ProZ.com Jun 8, 2004:
"thermally cleansing"?

Proposed translations

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English term (edited): thermally cleansing / delightfully bad
Selected

热切地发泄欲求 / 兴高采烈地做恶

两个镇之中,一个镇的人是伪君子,另一个镇的人是真小人。
伪君子镇上的人一副清教徒式的端庄,掩藏着他们的罪恶,状似为善。
真小人镇上的人则热切地发泄他们的欲求,做恶是好事,兴高采烈地做恶。
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