If the center of your flower is a circle, but your petals are pointy, you are probably hiding a warm heart behind a prickly defensiveness.

如果花心是圆形的，但是花瓣确是尖的，那你可能是把一颗温暖的心隐藏在多刺的防御后面。

Einstein noted with a touch of defensiveness.

爱因斯坦带着一丝防御记录了下来。

"I am curious to know whether you will take kindly to this new solution," Einstein noted with a touch of defensiveness.

“我很想知道，你是否能冷静地面对这一新的解决方案。”爱因斯坦写道，言辞中带着一丝防备。

Mildly embarrassed defensiveness bordering on hostility.

略显尴尬，接近敌意防卫。

Blame, judgment, criticism and defensiveness are likely outcomes.

指责，批评，挑剔，防御，是最有可能的结果。

This outbreak of defensiveness embodies one paradox and several myths.

排外行动的爆发，体现了一个矛盾和几个“神话”。

It's also why our defensiveness is so predictable and so counterproductive.

这也是为什么我们的防御性如此的可预见，如此的适得其反。

This defensiveness has backfired, and the credibility of climatologists has suffered.

这种防御式处理的效果适得其反，气象学家的信誉度大大降低。

There is a remarkable lack of regret in Mr Turner’s writing, or of defensiveness.

特纳的写作分明缺少一种表达遗憾的委婉，或曰一种保护性的防卫罢。

Power struggles are common. Blame, judgment, criticism and defensiveness are likely outcomes.

权力抗争是很常见的；指责，批评，挑剔，防御，是最有可能的结果。

We can learn to hear what the other people are saying without defensiveness or judgmental attitudes.

我们可以听到其他人没有防御或判断性态度的说法。

If you let go of the need to respond, you'll reduce your defensiveness and give yourself space to really listen.

如果你放开回应的需要，你会减少自己的防御性然后能够给出自己空间真正聆听。

With this solid wall of defensiveness and pretence how can we truly meet ourselves, not to mention another person?

在这道防御的高墙下，我们如何能真正的遇见自己，又如何能去遇见他人？

Repressive personality is a personality type which is the combination of low trait anxiety and high defensiveness.

压抑人格是一种同时具有低特质焦虑和高防御两个特征的人格类型。

At face value - if seen purely in terms of defensiveness - the response among the men doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

从表面上看——如果单纯只看防御性——男性测试的结果并没有太大意义。

If you're currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness.

假如你现在是个表现不错、工作业绩优秀的员工，那么你更有可能采取自我防御的态度去防卫我的观点。

We instantly react to a family member's familiar stinging criticism with defensiveness, without thinking about our response.

我们通常立即性地支持家庭成员的尖锐的评论，而没有想想我们自己的回应。

How often are you concerned about not offending others or causing defensiveness as you discuss their performance or abilities?

你常常注意讨论他人表现或能力时不得罪他人或造成他人出现抵制情绪吗？

You can state clearly and firmly how you feel or what you think, but there will be no aggressiveness or defensiveness about it.

你可以清楚且明确地陈述你的感受或想法，但其中不会有攻击或防卫。

It's being willing to look at your mistakes or failures with kindness and understanding - without harsh criticism or defensiveness.

你更愿意用仁慈和理解的心态看待错误或失败——而不是严厉的批评或抵触心理。

When a man gets too close and doesn't pull away, common symptoms are increased moodiness, irritability, passiveness, and defensiveness.

当男人过于亲近没有抽离时，常见的症状就是情绪化、性急、消极和防卫。

Fear, anger, embarrassment, defensiveness - any number of unpleasant feelings can course through us during a conversation we'd rather not have.

在谈话过程中，我们都不想表现出不悦，恐惧、气愤、尴尬和防卫等这些负面情绪都是双方竭力避免的。

A bit of affluence here, a bit less defensiveness there, and before you know it, the English cannot remember why a minority worried them so much.

这边有点财富，那边少一点守势，很快英国人就不记得为什么一个少数族群如此令他们担忧。

His discovery is that defensiveness and resistance are obviated when one responds to an individual "within his own internal frame of reference."

他的发现是当治疗师使用“个体他自己的参考内在框架”对个体回应时，防御机制与阻抗会被消除。

Curiosity: Diminishing your defensiveness, and remaining open to differences; being willing to learn more about self and other in every circumstance.

好奇心：放下自己的防卫机制，对他人保持敞开，在任何环境下保持一颗敞开的心。

The study of defensiveness and stress was carried out at the Montreal Heart Institute, where researchers evaluated 81 men and 118 women aged 20 to 64 years.

这项有关防御性和压力的研究是由蒙特利尔心脏学院展开的，研究人员对20岁至64岁之间的81位男性和118位女性进行了调查评估。

The intellectual property claim is a kind of defensiveness right based on the intellectual property for protecting intellectual properly from infringement.

知识产权请求权是基于知识产权而产生的为保护知识产权不受侵害的一种防卫性权利。

I‘ll take this action and I‘ll defeat this illness“, you are from your position of guardedness and defensiveness and negative emotion holding on to that illness.

我要采取这样的行动，我将会击败这个疾病”，你是从你的守护、防卫和消极情绪的立场出发，牢牢地抓住了那个疾病。