The ntc is a rather lawyerly bunch that often seems to lack political acumen .

全国过渡委员会主要是由一群律师组成的，通常缺乏政治敏锐性。

Bookish and lawyerly , he could hardly be a greater contrast to his flamboyant predecessor .

书卷气的，身为律师，他几乎是一个更大的反差，他华丽的前身。

That word , species , is a lawyerly concoction that allows him to call a rubber tube attached to a sophisticated machine a " suppository , " which it is - in a broad sense - but not in the very specific sense I meant .

“种”这个词，正适合他把连着高端仪器的橡皮管歪曲成“栓剂”，从某种程度上来说，它确实是那么回事，只是并不是我所指的意思。

Under duress , and in suitably lawyerly periphrases , they may , at most , express a compassionate " regret " for something inconsequential that they , or ideally someone else , did a long time ago .

最多就是在人们强迫下，他们才可能用律师般拐弯抹角的说法，表达他们对于很久以前，他们或是他们认为的某个人，做的某些无关紧要发出一点富有同情心的“遗憾”。