Dai li was a natural for the job: he was the classic rise from obscurity to great power through cunning, intelligence, and deviousness.

戴笠天生就是干这份工作的料：他是典型的通过狡诈、才智与阴谋而从默默无闻直到掌握巨大权力的。

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Listen to the exact wording, voice inflection, and maybe a hint of deviousness, but these phrases are always a red flag. They reveal the person intends to fail.

听他们的措辞，音调或许话风的转变，但听到这几句话要注意了，它们预示着这些人往往不可靠。

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At times you had to employ a certain desperate deviousness to get the job done.

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And cynics will take the message too far, justifying every kind of deviousness and inflexibility.

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But perhaps no better could be expected from an industry that has proved singularly dim in its deviousness.

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