How do you manage to make a character who could be easily unlikable likable?

你是如何将一个很容易被人讨厌的人物塑造得如此可爱？

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To disagree with someone you risk appearing rude, argumentative, or unlikable.

要和别人意见不同，就要冒着看上去粗鲁、好辩、不讨人喜欢的风险。

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The most silly, lazy, artful, shrewish, ugly, weak and unlikable child among all usually is most doted on by parents.

孩子之中比较最蠢，最懒，最刁，最泼，最丑，最弱，最不讨人喜欢的，往往最得父母钟爱。

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They are quite unlikable, and this is consistent pretty much across O'Connor's fiction : short, long, medium, whatever.

他们一点都不可爱，这些由始至终贯穿于她的作品里：,短篇的，长篇的，中篇的，无论哪种都是。

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The two works have almost nothing in common, except that both show clumps of unlikable people behaving implausibly in confined spaces.

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