Unsavoury businessmen were given jobs in the presidential administration .
在总统政府为声名狼藉的商人谋得职位。
Both main parties pander to interest groups whose votes are controlled by unsavoury strongmen .
两大主要党派都在迎合利益集团,而这些利益集团的选举大都被令人生厌的强者所控制。
From arabia to africa , it is dominated by unsavoury state firms .
从阿拉伯半岛到非洲,整个石油行业都被肮脏的国有企业所垄断。
He treated his political opponents with brutality , an unsavoury period now all but forgotten because of the greater horrors perpetrated by the khmer rouge .
Wall street is being forced to admit to yet more unsavoury practices linked to mortgage bonds and president barack obama has been dragged into the affair .
It would be difficult to imagine anything more unsavoury than a wholesale confession of sin .
我们很难想像出有任何东西,会比原罪的全体告解,更加伤风败俗。
There is no room within this definition for the authoritarian , the malicious and the corrupt . Study of these unsavoury personalities has been left to psychologists and historians .
这个定义没有为独裁者、怀有恶意者和腐败者留有余地。对这些讨厌人物的研究则留给了心理学家和历史学家。
In other words , unless a pupil sleeps through his history classes he will be inevitably confronted by the , shall we say , unsavoury aspects of his country 's history .
换言之,除非学生在历史课上睡着了,否则必然会直面他们国家历史丑陋的一面。
After resolving teething problems and making products that match specifications , innovation inside the factory turns to cutting costs , often in ways that range from unsavoury to dangerous .
He spends much of the book patiently explaining the evolutionary roots of unsavoury desires , such as infidelity and hard-core pornography , but then loses all tolerance with what he sees as the duplicitous " hope peddling " of religion .