Carping and tattling won't get you anywhere - but there are a few things you can do to alleviate the issue.

吹毛求疵和打小报告不会给你带来任何结果——不过你可以做几件事来解决这个问题。

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They are also carping about her New Yorkiness—she did not learn to drive a car until her late 20s—and her supposed isolation from the lives of ordinary Americans.

他们还对于她作为纽约人的生活方式（她直到快30岁才学开车）和与一般美国人有所谓的疏离吹毛求疵。

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Australia, plunged into grief despite its carping, talked of holding a state funeral for him.

陷入悲痛的澳大利亚人议论纷纷，谈论着要为他进行国葬。

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And by "critical, " I doubt very much that Ebert would have meant a position of carping or complaining or even cutting-down-to-size so much as a state of heightened perception, of being open enough to the possibility that whatever you're looking at or listening to may not be what it seems -- or should be.

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Australia, plunged into grief despite its carping, talked of holding a state funeral for him.

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If military action goes ahead, if it is successful, if Iraq looks reasonably stable afterwards and if the world is a safer place as a result then all the carping will be instantly forgotten.

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