||1:The level playing field promised when the coalition came to power in 2010 remains a work in progress.||2:David Willetts, the universities minister, failed in a bid to allow for-profit education firms equal access to state funding.||3:Many senior academics opposed the move, citing “derisory graduation rates, crushing levels of debts and degrees of dubious value” from some for-profit American companies.||4:The issue has been shelved until 2015 at the earliest.||5:When it comes to changing higher education, even small innovations can provoke a noisy backlash.

||1:承诺的公平竞争自2010年联合政府上台后仍在进程中。||2:教育大臣戴维·维利斯在允许盈利性的教育公司有平等获得政府资助的投标中失败。||3:许多高级学者反对这个行为， 认为这是由一些以营利为主的美国公司带来的“低得可笑的毕业率，高得离谱的债务和一文不值的学位”。||4:最早到2015年这个问题才会搁置。||5:谈到高等教育改革，即使一些很小的创新也会产生争论不休的强烈反对。

Cambodian textile workers, who make many of the clothes on sale in the US and Europe, say this wage is derisory .

而为欧美市场生产大量服装的柬埔寨纺织工人们则认为，这份工资是可笑的。

The interest from Hershey could add new pressure on Kraft to sweeten its $16. 5 billion offer, which Cadbury rejected last week as derisory .

好时半路杀出参与竞购可能为卡夫食品带来压力，迫使其提高165亿美元的收购报价.吉百利上周以出价过低为由拒绝了卡夫的收购要约。

Cadbury Chairman Roger Carr has dismissed Kraft’s offer as “derisory . ”

吉百利董事长RogerCarr称卡夫的收购要约是“可笑的”。

Cadbury declined to comment on the formal bid, but a source close to the company said: “The offer is unchanged and still derisory . ”

吉百利拒绝就正式收购要约置评，但一位接近该公司的人士表示，“要约没有变动，仍是嘲弄式的。”

Her bid was dismissed as a “derisory ” offer from a “low-growth conglomerate” .

她的报价遭到拒绝，因为这是来自一家“低增长集团”的“荒谬”报价。

The Japanese stock market would fly if derisory returns on equity were lifted, in spite of the country’s economic stagnation.

尽管目前日本经济停滞不前，但如果该国少得可笑的股本收益率有所增加，日本股市也会大涨。

All the while, Chinese households are earning derisory income on their savings, and in rural, inland areas poverty remains widespread.

与此同时，中国家庭的储蓄只能获得一点可笑的收益，而在内陆的农村地区，贫困现象仍很普遍。

Allied action on the Western front during Hitler’s conquest of Poland was derisory .

在希特勒占领波兰期间，盟军在西线几乎没有动作。

In the first, which Carr sent to Rosenfeld the next week, he called the offer “derisory . ”

在一开始，卡尔写信告诉罗森菲尔德他认为这是一项“可笑”的交易。

Nor is China’s offer derisory .

中国提供的也不应该被嘲笑。