The same request comes off very differently if it's done with a smile and a hug, as opposed to a whiny tone or angry face.

同样的请求您以微笑和拥抱来表达或者相反以烦躁的口吻和生气的表情来表达所得到的效果是大相径庭的。

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Sandberg and the female executives in the room said that they thought it risked being a "girl question" if it was asked in a "whiny" way.

桑德伯格和其他几位同在会议室的女管理人说，她们认为如果这个问题是以一种“牢骚连连”的方式提出来的，那么它是在处在“女孩问题”的临界点上。

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"I do forget Kyle is 3," Jerkatis said. "Then once in a while, he gets a little whiny, and I remember."

“我确实忘记了Kyle只有3岁，”Jerkatis说，“偶尔他会呜咽，现在我记住了。”

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Now that AMD has managed to be more than just a thorn in Intel's side, and instead a valid and increasingly threatening competitor, we figured they'd lay off the immature Intel bashing, but AMD's CEO, Hector Ruiz, got a bit whiny the other day during a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

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But finding out a threat lurks inside your genome can put you in a whiny mood, anyway.

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Butler is understandably a little bit whiny and mopey, as Annie works through the adoption bureaucracy while continuing to recover from a serious depression over the years of miscarriages, in-vitro-fertilization attempts and fertility drugs.

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