The only good thing about this was the spurious inverted commas around watershed, suggesting the author was experiencing some discomfort at the scale of the linguistic crimes being committed.

这句话中唯一的妙笔就是打在分水岭式两边、表示这个词用得不当的那个引号，说明这种赤裸裸的言语犯罪令作者自己都有些不安。

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Test results showed that on a pain scale from one to ten, laser acupuncture reduced discomfort by two points.

实验结果证明在一把标记1到10的痛觉量化尺上，激光针减少了两个等级的痛感。

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He became head of the Bundesbank in May after Axel Weber resigned because of his discomfort with the ECB's (then small-scale) interventions in sovereign-bond markets, which were designed to keep credit flowing to banks and businesses.

ECONOMIST: The European Central Bank