You know these people: They're always critical of everything you do and say, which can be contagious.
你认识这种人：他们对你所做和所说的每件事情都一直挑刺，这种行为有时候会感染他人（情绪）。When your Aries dad is poking fun or picking a fight with you, believe it or not, he is saying that he loves you.
当你的白羊座父亲取笑你或向你挑刺时，信不信由你，他是在向你表达他爱你。I don't want you to be forever finding fault with me.
我不要你成天给我挑刺儿。Yet singling out Mr Mack may be unfair , as none of his peers are any good at this either .
当然，单单给麦晋桁“挑刺”可能有些不公平，因为其它公司高管中没有一个擅长此道。We are just used to fighting and nagging, but there is no absolute rightness and apparently we are no way the model of such justice.
我们只是习惯了争论和挑刺，但是这不意味着绝对正确，我们也决不是这种正义的模范代表。While my industry has quibbled about its true size ever since, this misses the point.
虽然我的同行们此后一直在该方案的真正规模上挑刺，但他们没有抓住要点。It goes with the grain of Britain's ornery zeitgeist, with its antipathy to politicians.
这一新的议程延续了英国挑刺儿的时代精神和对政客的不屑。You criticize, I know that I'll never be what you want me to be.
你总挑刺，我知道我永远都不会变成你想的样子These days to store inside the woman ugly and nagging, they didn't like the taste of the flowers.
这些天来店里面式的女人又丑又挑刺，她们像没品味的花朵。