nose-thumbing的中文翻译

nose-thumbing

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1. Given license to express themselves, they sculpted eccentric keystone portraits-workers with comically bandaged faces, poets, a man thumbing his nose at his neighbors-and fanciful grotesques.: 这些人拥有抒发自我的资格证书，他们把楔石刻成各种异乎寻常的肖像，脸上滑稽地缠满绷带的工人、装腔作势的诗人、朝着邻居用拇指扇自己鼻子的男人，以及任何他们能够幻想出的离奇形象。

2. Thumbing his nose at such notions as resource scarcity, Mr Simon wagered that the price of any five commodities chosen by Mr Ehrlich would go down over the following decade.: 西蒙对其强调资源稀缺性的观点嗤之以鼻，他打赌说，在随后到来的十年中，埃氏挑选的那五种商品价格必会下跌。