Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.

只有贪欲的耻辱，浪费的赞赏。 。

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Two or three grave sedate-looking persons shook their heads, and left the inn, hinting, that if Gile Gosling wished to continue to thrive, he should turn his thriftless godless nephew adrift again.

有两三个严肃而沉静的人却摇摇头，走出了旅店，暗示吉尔斯·戈斯林，要是他想生意继续兴隆，就该趁早打发这个奢侈无度、不敬上帝的外甥再到外面去漂泊。

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Many Asian leaders have vivid memories of the lectures they endured in 1997-98 over their thriftless, incompetent economic management, and of the harsh medicine they were forced to swallow in return for IMF assistance.

ECONOMIST: Disarray in the West generates mixed reactions in Asia