Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery.

部分的自由对我来说就是最令人憎恶的奴役方式。

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Now there's a new legal menace: scorned workers who claim that an office affair fostered an invidious work environment, even if they weren't actually involved in the romance themselves.

现在又出现一个新的法律威胁：蔑视声称办公室恋情产生充满妒忌的工作环境的员工，即使他们自己没有涉足恋情。

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Such a tactic is calculated, methodical, invidious? And remarkably effective.

这样的手段是有计划的，有系统的，是诽谤？ ？不过十分奏效。

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Dobson, who for all his faults is a fairly sensible type of politician, is angry at being forced to run in a rigged election, finds winning a rigged contest has put him in a very invidious position, and feels he could have won it in a "one member one vote" contest, honestly and squarely.

BBC: London mayor: Your views

Also appearing before the committee of MPs, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education David Bell said the errors made by officials had put Mr Gove in a "invidious position".

BBC: Education committee

Yet it is now in the invidious position of being a long-term manager of a large portfolio of state-owned properties with all the risks of political interference that this entails.

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