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Mr Schwarzman has little time in the book for the little guy. Other financiers wring their hands over the wealth gap between bosses and workers. Not him.
苏世民在书中没留多少笔墨给小人物。其他金融家为老板和工人之间的贫富差距忧心。他没有。
——《经济学人》New yorkers, and particularly Manhattanites, are wringing their hands about the two dozen or so supertall luxury towers sprouting along the southern edge of Central Park.
二十多座超高层豪华公寓楼沿中央公园南缘修建起来，令纽约人，尤其是曼哈顿人扼腕痛惜。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 挤压和扭曲（某物）使液体从中流出
她拧干一件俗气的衬衫并挂到外面晾干。
She wrung out a tawdry shirt and hung it out to dry.
他要是再剽窃你的主意来写文章，我非掐死他不可！
I'll wring his neck if he expropriates your ideas for his own article again!
由于目前人们对消费的信心降到了低谷，汽车销售商们正为低迷的销量而着急上火。
Since consumer confidence is currently at a low ebb, car dealers are wringing their hands over low sales.
他们设法迫使这些精明的老板们作出了一些让步。
They managed to wring a few concessions from the shrewd bosses.
On her flower frowning miss Douce said:
杜丝小姐朝自己的花皱了皱眉，说：
—Most aggravating that young brat is. If he doesn't conduct himself I'll wring his ear for him a yard long.
“那个小子太放肆啦。他要是不放规矩些，我就把他的耳朵扯到一码长。”
出自爱尔兰现代主义作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce）于1922年出版的长篇小说《尤利西斯》（Ulysses）。《尤利西斯》作为意识流小说的代表作，被誉为20世纪百大英文小说之首，并被奉为20世纪最伟大的小说。
twist: form (something) into a particular shape by taking hold of one or both ends and turning them squeeze: firmly press (something soft or yielding), typically with one's fingers crumple: crush (something, typically paper or cloth) so that it becomes creased and wrinkled