When we make negative gestures, they at best irritate China and at worst alienate China's goodwill when we should be building a serious strategic partnership between the EU and China.

若我们摆出消极姿态，那么最轻也会激怒中国；最严重的情况下，还会使我们疏远中国方面的善意，而我们本应在欧盟与中国之间建立一种认真的战略伙伴关系。

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Few things irritate photographers more than that knowing smile as someone looks at one of their pictures and tells them how lucky they were to get it.

那些给摄影家以灵感的东西，当不只仅是你在看某部作品时的会心一笑以及想告诉他们的拍到这一幕真是幸运。

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The Mosquito, a device that emits a screeching sound at a pitch heard only by young people, is designed to so irritate youths that it deters them from loitering.

“蚊子”是一种能发出尖锐声音的设备，而这种频率的声音只能被年轻人听到，被设计用于对付亢奋的年轻人，阻止他们继续在街上活动。

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The fundamental issue I have with most of these tactics (and they are tactics, not strategies) is that they tend to irritate consumers and at times insult their intelligence.

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Either you'll scream at jokes like that, or they'll quickly irritate you the way they did me.

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