grubby

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It is this spirit of grubby compromise, not lofty idealism, that will determine the future of the euro.
決定歐元未來(lái)的正是這種卑鄙的妥協(xié)態(tài)度，而不是高尚的理想主義。
At the heart of their argument is the belief in a grubby bargain between Asian savers and American consumers.
他們爭(zhēng)論的核心在于相信亞洲的儲(chǔ)蓄者和美洲的消費(fèi)者之間骯臟的交易.
The technology is not inherently frugal or green. It can be used to deliver not just clean renewable energy more efficiently, but also the grubby coal-fired sort.
技術(shù)并非內(nèi)在的就是節(jié)約和環(huán)保的，它不僅可以被用于更有效的傳輸清潔的可再生的能源，對(duì)于骯臟的燃煤火力發(fā)電也是一樣。

From such heights you can no longer see what's happening in the grubby little markets below.
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En route to the predictably sentimental conclusion, the horror of base emotions and grubby lives prevails.
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Beneath the rhetoric, the Clinton administration's approach has reflected more grubby deal-making than grand theorising.
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A grubby person or object is rather dirty.
If you call an activity or someone's behaviour grubby, you mean that it is not completely honest or respectable.