2. Both sides were then becoming concerned about the damage being done to their image by the increasingly
vituperative race between them.
于是,双方开始担忧彼此不断升级的相互指责会损害各自的形象。他们协商合作。
3. China changed its mind after
vituperative outbursts online by nationalists, still angry with Japan for its occupation of China in the 1930s and 1940s.
但民族主义者仍对二十世纪三、四十年代日本侵华很愤怒,他们在网上责骂之后,中国政府改变了想法。