If the center of your flower is a circle, but your petals are pointy, you are probably hiding a warm heart behind a prickly defensiveness.

如果花心是圆形的，但是花瓣确是尖的，那你可能是把一颗温暖的心隐藏在多刺的防御后面。

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It's also why our defensiveness is so predictable and so counterproductive.

这也是为什么我们的防御性如此的可预见，如此的适得其反。

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This defensiveness has backfired, and the credibility of climatologists has suffered.

这种防御式处理的效果适得其反，气象学家的信誉度大大降低。

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Engagement behaviors indicate interest, receptivity, or agreement while disengagement behaviors signal boredom, anger, or defensiveness.

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Mobius, president of Templeton's Emerging Markets Fund, looks back without a hint of defensiveness.

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So foreign criticism, which in some countries might arouse defensiveness, is in fact welcomed.

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