Then came the holy rule of CON-crass and till late 90's we had added 9000 KMs to the existing 53000 KMs i. e. in almost 50 years we added 9000 KMs.

后来是国大党的神圣统治。90年代以前，我们在已有的53000公里中增加了9000公里。也就是说，在大约50年里，我们增加了9000公里。

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Don, t talk to him: he. s so crass.

他很粗鲁，别和他讲话啊。

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"There are U.S.troops who are incredibly crass and cruel in their treatment of citizens and journalists as well."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

The chief justice knows how ugly that might be, having sat through the president's crass political attack on his court during the 2010 State of the Union address.

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It's flash, it's crass and over by two.

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The key may lie in the phrase "unslakeable thirsting in the backyard" in the last verse. (Yes, "unslakeable, " as in "insatiable, " one example of Veirs' idiosyncratic use of language.) She's not crass enough to spell it out so explicitly, but she's equating emotional longing with heat-wave dehydration, in a wonderfully subtle way.

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