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Some American economists who used to carp at Japan's failings are more sympathetic now.
一些曾经不停抱怨日本的失败的美国经济学家，如今更多的是赞同。
Critics on the American right are wrong to carp at Mr Obama’s bowing to kings and emperors.
美国右派的批评家们因为奥巴马对国王和天皇鞠躬而吹毛求疵，他们这样做是不对的。
The most important weakness, however, is one that goes some way to justifying the claims of Mr Ferguson's academic colleagues who carp at his embrace of the popular.
不过，这本书最致命的弱点还是在于，它从一定程度上证明了对弗格森的大众化吹毛求疵的那些同仁所言非虚。

It is catastrophic to the natural ecosystem, and a problem for the fishing industry in the U.S., which looks at Asian Carp as an undesirable fish to eat.

They say the electric barrier in the shipping canal is keeping the carp at bay.
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Untied, founded in 1997 to carp at United Airlines, was one of the first.
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But his communist past could count against him, and nationalists carp at his ethnic-German roots.
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