Like some seedy racketeer , the delinquents in pyongyang had extorted a generous payment in exchange for talks about giving up their pursuit of nuclear weapons .
正如某些下流的敲诈者一样,平壤的无赖们就敲诈了一大笔钱,以此为交换条件开展放弃发展核武器的谈判。
Mantel 's ninth novel is a beyond-black comedy about seedy , exhausted millennium-era britain and an obese , traumatised medium called alison who is cursed with the gift of second sight .
Dill grumbles , looking utterly disappointed in his best friend , his once confidante in seedy one night stands , but not my brother anymore .
迪尔不满,失望,完全看他最好的朋友,他曾经在破旧的一夜情红颜知己,但不是我的哥哥了。
Governments outlawed much of what was the bottom end of the housing market - the derelict apartment buildings , seedy hotels , and rooming houses - while legalizing vagrancy .