off-colour

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Maybe so, but spending less when households are in no shape to pick up the slack seems a sure-fire way to keep an anaemic recovery off-colour.
也許是這么做是對(duì)的，但是當(dāng)家庭們還沒(méi)有收起怠惰的狀態(tài)的時(shí)刻就消減政府支出似乎是一個(gè)使原本就沒(méi)什么活力的復(fù)蘇繼續(xù)萎靡的可靠選擇。
Sackings for admin staff who spend hours of work time on unsuitable websites are well documented, but people also get canned for sending off-colour emails.
職員往往會(huì)因?yàn)樵诓划?dāng)?shù)木W(wǎng)站上逗留過(guò)長(zhǎng)時(shí)間而被解雇，同樣如果發(fā)送黃色email也會(huì)遭到解雇。
You look a bit off-colour today. You'd better take some rest.
你今天看來(lái)有點(diǎn)不適，還是休息一下吧。

But we all rather cringe at his stream of off-colour jokes. (Our Nordic cousins look particularly pained.) And he will flash his money around.
ECONOMIST: Charlemagne
But once an off-colour joke or ill-considered rant has been emailed to a friend or posted online, it can be much harder to get rid of.
ECONOMIST: Tech.view: Everybody does it The

(ILL) slightly ill
(SEXUAL) Off-colour remarks or jokes about sex are about sex and are slightly shocking.