报废 report sth. as worthless; discard as useless; reject; scrap; attrition 对方的辱骂和恐吓恰恰暴露了他的理屈词穷 the other side's smears and menaces only underlined his/her destitution of arguments 杯水车薪 palliatives; to fill the sea with buckets of sand from the beach; to take a spade to the proverbial bottomless pit 卑劣 base; mean; despicable; sleezy 处于可悲的境地 be in a deplorable (pathetic) state; be in a sorry plight 形势所迫而不得不那样做make a virtue of necessity to do sth. 本土 metropolitan territory; on the home soil