There are times when showing off may be forgivable and maybe even acceptable.
有 的时候卖弄可以得到原谅甚至是可以接受的。
The most obvious example was that Indian Ocean nations lacked a tsunami-warning system like the one in the Pacific, but that omission may be forgivable.
一个最明显的例子就是，印度洋沿岸的国家没有象太平洋国家那样的海啸预警系统。
The racism alluded to in the first part explodes in all its savagery, and the town - which seemed to be guilty only of a forgivable insularity - becomes a cesspit.
如果说小说第一部分只是影射了种族主义，那么在第二部分，种族的不平等得到了野蛮的渲泄，小城梅岗也从一个尚可原谅的封闭小镇成了一个恶贯满盈、种族主义猖獗的大粪坑。
When that attitude goes global, the human beings of the new millennium may be able to look back on their former garbage-producing ways as a forgivable error of their youth as a species.
当世界各地的人们都持这种态度的时候，处于新千年的人类回想起当年制造垃圾的种种方式，可能会认为那只不过是人这个物种进化到青年时期犯下的可饶恕的错误。
When that attitude goes global, the human beings of the new millennium may be able to look back on their former garbage-producing ways as a forgivable error of their youth as a species.
当世界各地的人们都持这种态度的时候，处于新千年的人类回想起当年制造垃圾的种种方式，可能会认为那只不过是人这个物种进化到青年时期犯下的可饶恕的错误。
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